Chapter 7-connected Speech Flashcards
What is citation form
A word is pronounced carefully as a single item
What is connected speech
Results from joining two or more words together in creation of an utterance
What is coarticulation
Overlapping of the articulators during speech production
What is assimilation
Phonemes take on the phonetic character of neighboring sounds
Happens when you coarticulation
What it is regressive assimilation
One form of assimilation that occurs when the identity of a phoneme is modified due to a phoneme following it
Also known as right to left assimilation. Or anticipatory assimilation
What is progressive assimilation
Results when a phoneme identity changes as a result of a phoneme preceding it in time
Also known as left to right assimilation or perseverative assimilation
What is elision
Omission of a phoneme during speech production
What is epenthesis
Addition of a phoneme to the production of a word
What is metathesis
Transposition of sounds in a word
What is vowel reduction
Often the full form of a vowel becomes more like a mid central vowel
What is stress
Louder longer in duration and hire in pitch primary and secondary can only have one primary in a multi syllabic word
What is intonation
Modification of voice pitch
What is a tonic syllable
A syllable that receives greatest pitch change
What is a falling intonational phrase
A company complete sentences commands and are indicative of the finality of an utterance WH questions
What is a rising intonational phrase
Usually indicates uncertainty on the speakers part questions were incomplete thoughts tag questions or yes or no questions
What is a juncture
It indicates the way syllables and words are linked together in connected speech
What is an external juncture
A pause that connects to intonational phrases
/l/ for short pause
/ll/ for a longer pause
What is an open internal juncture
A pause between syllables
Marked with [+]
What is a close internal juncture
No pause between syllables
What does a slower speech rate affect
Prosody and appears to be less monotonus softer and less spontaneous
What happens in an increased speech rate
Achieved by illuminating pauses and decreasing the duration of vowels and longer consonants such as glides liquids and fricatives
Do vowels is an open syllables or close syllables have a longer duration
Vowels in open syllables are longer
What is a suprasegmental
It is the stress timing and internation that are features of speech above the boundaries of individual speech sound segments affecting the entire utterance
