Chapter / File 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
Phonetics
The study of the minimal units of language.
Articulatory Phonetics
Subfield of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds.
Acoustic Phonetics
Subfield of phonetics concerned with the physical characteristics of the sounds of speech.
Auditory Phonetics
Subfield of phonetics concerned with the perception of speech sounds.
Impressionistic Phonetic Transcription
A method of writing down speech sounds with the intent of capturing how they are pronounced. Usually based simply on how the sounds are perceived when heard without any special analysis.
Monophthongs
A simple vowel, composed of a single configuration of the vocal organs.
Diphthongs
A complex vowel, composed of a sequence of two different configurations of the vocal organs.
Parameter
In signed languages, aspects of articulation that describe primes.
Primes
With regard to visual-gestural languages, a fundamental element, equivalent in many ways to a phoneme in an auditory-vocal language, with the exception that primes are produced simultaneously, whereas phonemes can be produced only sequentially.
Segments
The individual units of the speech stream.
Suprasegmental
A phonetic characteristic of speech sounds, such as length, intonation, tone, or stress, that “rides on top of” segmental features. Must usually be identified by comparison to the same feature on other sounds or strings of sounds.
Palatography
Experimental method that shows the contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth.
Static Palatography
Experimental method that displays the contact resulting from a single articulatory gesture between the tongue and the hard palate.
Dynamic Palatography
Experimental method that tracks the contacts and contact patterns between the tongue and the hard palate over time.
Spectrogram
A three-dimensional representation of sound in which the vertical axis represents frequency, the horizontal axis represents time, and the darkness of shading represents amplitude.
