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Consonants and Vowels Flashcards

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit in language that distinguishes meaning.

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Consonant

- characteristics

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  • Restrictions or closure in the vocal tract impeding the airstream
  • Noise element, no harmonic vibration
  • cannot be centre of a syllable
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Distinctive features of consonants

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  • place of articulation
  • manner of articulation
  • state of glottis
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Place of articulation

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Describes exact place where the airstream is obstructed.

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Places of Articulation
- 8

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  • bilabial
  • labiodental
  • dental
  • alveolar
  • postalveolar
  • palatal
  • velar
  • glottal
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Manner of articulation

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Describes the type or degree of closure of the speech organs,
I.e. how the airstream is modified in the vocal tract

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Manner of articulation

Name all of them

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  • Plosive
  • Fricative
  • Affricate
  • Nasal
  • Lateral
  • Approximant
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State of glottis

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Voiced
Voiceless

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Voiced

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Vibration of the vocal folds (vocal folds close together)

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Voiceless

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No vibration of vocal folds (Vocal folds apart)

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/d/

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Plosive, alveolar, voiced
E.g.: dog

E.g.: dog

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/p/

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plosive, bilabial, voiceless
E.g.: pull

E.g.: pull

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/b/

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Plosive, bilabial, voiced
E.g.: burn

E.g.: burn

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/t/

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Plosive, alveolar, voiceless
E.g.: take

E.g.: take

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/k/

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Plosive, velar, voiceless
E.g.: king

E.g.: king

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/g/

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Plosive, velar, voiced
E.g.: get

E.g.: get

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/f/

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Fricative, labiodental, voiceless
E.g.: fish

E.g.: fish

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/v/

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Fricative, labiodental, voiced
E.g.: vain

E.g.: vain

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/θ/

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Fricative, dental, voiceless
E.g.: thin

E.g.: thin

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/ð/

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Fricative, dental, voiced
E.g.: there

E.g.: there

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/s/

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Fricative, alveolar, voiceless
E.g.: sin

E.g.: sin

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/z/

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Fricative, alveolar, voiced
E.g.: zoo

E.g.: zoo

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/ʃ/

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Fricative, postalveolar, voiceless
E.g.: shine

E.g.: shine

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/ʒ/

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Fricative, postalveolar, voiced
E.g.: rouge

E.g.: rouge

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/h/

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Fricative, glottal, voiceless
E.g.: high

E.g.: high

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/tʃ/

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Affricate, postalveolar, voiceless
E.g.: chair

E.g.: chair

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/dʒ/

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Affricate, postalveolar, voiced
E.g.: job

E.g.: bridge

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/m/

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Nasal, bilabial, voiced
E.g.: mouse

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/n/

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Nasal, alveolar, voiced
E.g.: noise

E.g.: nose

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/ɳ/

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Nasal, velar, voiced
E.g.: king

E.g.: king

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/l/

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Lateral, alveolar, voiced
E.g.: long

E.g.: long

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/w/

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Approximant, bilabial, voiced
E.g.: warn

E.g.: warn

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/r/

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Approximant, postalveolar, voiced
E.g.: red

E.g.: red

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/j/

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Approximant, palatal, voiced
E.g.: yes

E.g.: yes

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Vowel

- characteristics

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  • no obstruction of the airstream
  • harmonic vibration, no noise element
  • can be centre of a syllable
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Distinctive features of a vowel

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  • openess of the mouth
  • position of the tongue
  • long/ short
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Monophthong

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No change in quality during articulation
E.g.: /fɪt/ (fit)
/ʃuːt/ (shoot)

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/iː/

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Front, closed, long
Monophthong
E.g.: seat

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/ɪ/

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Front, between closed and half-closed, short
Monophthong
E.g.: sit

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/ʊ/

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Back, between closed and half closed, short
Monophthong
E.g.: foot, put

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/u:/

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Back, closed, long
Monophthong
E.g.: food, boot

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/e/

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Front, half-closed/ half-open, short
Monophthong
E.g.: set, pet

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/ɜ:/

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Central, half-closed, long
Monophthong
E.g.: bird, heard

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/ə/

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Central, half-open, short
Monophthong
E.g.: mother

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/ɔ:/

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Back, between half-closed and half-open, long
Monophthong
E.g.: law

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/æ/

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Front, open, short
Monophthong
E.g.: sat, pat

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/ʌ/

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Central, open, short
Monophthong
E.g.: some, cut

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/ɑ:/

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Back, open, long
Monophthong
E.g.: father

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/ɒ/

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Back, open, short
Monophthong
E.g.: dog

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Diphthong

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Change of quality within one syllable
> both elements merge
/meɪk/ (make)
/ðeə/ (there)

  1. Closing Diphthong
  2. Centring Diphthong
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/eɪ/

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Front, between half open and half-closed > front, closed, long
Closing diphthong
E.g.: mate, they, place

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/ʊə/

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Back, closed > central, long
Centring Diphthongs
E.g.: sure, poor
> strong tendency to replace Diphthong with the long Monophthong /ɔ:/

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/əʊ/

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Central, between half-closed and half-open > back, closed, long
Closing Diphthong
E.g.: home, so

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/aɪ/

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Central, Open > Front, closed, long
Closing Diphthong
E.g.: my/ time

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/aʊ/

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Back, open > back, closed, long
Closing Diphthong
E.g.: house, town

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/ɔɪ/

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Back, half-open > front, closed, long
Closing Diphthong
E.g.: boy, oil

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/ɪə/

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Front, closed > central, long
Centring Diphthong
E.g.: here, dear

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/eə/

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Front, half-open > central, long
Centring Diphthong
E.g.: There, air

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Closing Diphthong

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  • end in /ɪ, ʊ/
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Centring Diphthong

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  • end in /ə/
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Allophone

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Different realizations of one phoneme

Notations: [ ]

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Lexical Morphemes

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Carry an independent meaning

E.g.: {-er} {un-} {dog}

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Grammatical Morphemes

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Express grammatical relations

E.g.: {the} {-ed} {-s}

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Free lexical morpheme

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-can stand alone
-content words
E.g.: {fair} {dog}

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Bound lexical morpheme

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-bound to a word
-derivational morpheme
-indicates where it is bound (prefix or suffix) with a -
E.g.: {un-} {-er} {-ly}

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free grammatical morpheme

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-function word

E.g.: {the} {but]

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Bound grammatical morpheme

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-inflectional morpheme

E.g.: {-s} in dogs

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Minimal pair

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Words that differ/ are distinguished in just one sound in the same position
E.g.:
-/b,ɪ,t/ /h,ɪ,t/differ in one phoneme

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Plosive

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Blocking the airstream completely, releasing air in a burst (exposive)

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Fricative

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Restricting the airstream at different places (friction)

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Affricate

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Moving from plosive to fricative (explosion then friction)

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Nasal

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Airstream is not moving out of your mouth but out of your nose

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Lateral

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Airstream passes through the sides of your tongue

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Approximant

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Least consonant like sounds, approximating vowels

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