Chapter 1 Flashcards
Phonetics
The study of the production and perception of speech sounds
Using a system of symbols to that accurately and reliably represent the sounds of a language
Phonology
The sound system of the language: the structure and function of the sounds of a language
- group of specific sounds used in that language
- permissible variations of those sounds when produced
- particular rules for combining those sounds
consonants and vowels Make up a phonology system
Phonotactics
Phonological rules that dictate what positions in the syllable a phonetic segment is permitted to occupy and how the sounds can combine
Acoustic Phonetics
physical properties of sound (frequency, amplitude, duration)
Articulatory Phonetics
physiological or informational or descriptive - How and where sounds are produced in the dynamic vocal tract
perceptual phonetics
study of how we hear and interpret speech sounds
Informational domain
knowledge about speech sounds. first phoneme in above and final phoneme in sofa is the most frequently-occurrring speech sound in the English language
Perceptual Domain
How we perceive and discriminate productions of speech sounds
emphasizes listening (perceptual discrimination) of speech sounds and then describing using phonetic symbols (phonetic transcription)
Linguistic Complexity
divides speech into isolation, word, sentence, conversation or continuous speech
response complexity
one sound or multiple sounds
system complexity
phonetic transcription, two-way scoring, 5-way scoring
phonetic transcription
describing what the client says
more complex than the 2 or 5 way scoring
international phonetic alphabet
broad or narrow transcription
Consonants (closed sounds)
speech sounds produced as a results of air moving through the vocal tract encoountering constriction or obstruction
singleton - bat (consonants by themselves)
sequence - stops (consonants in a series - this is also called cluster example vs .across syllables “husband”)
Articulators
lips, front teeth, lower jaw, tongue, velum -obstruct or modify the outgoing breath stream to produce these types of sounds
vowels
speech sounds produced as a results of air moving through a relatively open vocal tract
nucleus of a syllable
most acoustic energy
referred to as the peak of the syllable egdgsfsd
syllable
unit of pronunciation consisting of a vowel sound alone or a vowel sound with the consonants that precede or follow it
prevocalic consonants (onset)
consonants that come before the vowel
postvocalic consonants (coda)
consonants that come after the vowel
Rime
= nucleus/peak (vowel) + coda
Phonogram
Written representation of the rime
E.G. “Ap” for map, tap, nap
Open syllables
Any syllable that ends with a vowel sound; no coda present
Closed syllable
Any syllable ending with a consonant sound - these have a coda
Simple syllables
Contain no consonants or only singleton consonants
Complex syllables
Contains at least one sequence
E.g. ask, spy, sprint