Ch. 6 Vocab

Question 0

Speech results from joining two or more words together to create an utterance
Ex: I caught him. “I caught ‘em”

Answer 0

Connected speech

Question 1

A word is pronounced carefully as a single item (word by word)

Answer 1

Citation form

Question 2

Process whereby phonemes take on the phonetic characters of neighboring sounds
Ex: “moo” - lips are puckered (rounded) for the production of ‘m’ bc they are getting ready for net sound ‘oo’

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

Occurs when the identity of a phoneme is modified due to a phoneme following it (R to L)

Answer 3

Regressive assimilation

Question 4

A phonemes identity changes as a result of a phoneme preceding it in time (L to R)

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Progressive assimilation

Question 5

Omission of a phoneme during speech production (elimination if a sound)
Ex: “Camera” ‘er’ is left out and pronounced “camra”

Answer 5

Elision

Question 6

Addition of a phoneme to the production of a word

Ex: “Leo” /j/ is added /lijoū/

Answer 6

Epenthesis

Question 7

Transposition of a sound in a word

Ex: “elephant” to “efelant”

Answer 7

Metathesis

Question 8

Overlapping of the articulators during speech production

Ex: “Soon” lips are rounded at beginning ‘s’ in anticipation of the rounded vowel ‘oo’

Answer 8

Coarticulation

Question 9

Full form of a vowel becomes more like the mid-central vowel when spoken in connected speech
Ex: “I can go”

Answer 9

Vowel reduction

Question 10

Stress, timing, and initiation are generally referred to as the what aspects of speech?

Answer 10

Suprasegmental

Question 11

Modification of voice pitch

Answer 11

Intonation

Question 12

General fall, or declination, in the pitch of the voice over the length of most neutrally spoken statements

Answer 12

Falling intonational phrase

Question 13

Voice pitch that will go higher at the end of a sentence

Answer 13

Rising intonational phrase