Definitions

Question 1

Pathology

Answer 1

The study and understanding of how illness and diseases work and their impact on people

Question 2

Allophones

Answer 2

A group of speech sounds which are minimalistically linguistically contrastive to other phonemes

Question 3

Diacritic

Answer 3

A phonetic symbol to show a difference in pronunciation.

Question 4

Suprasegmental

Answer 4

Speech feature that accompanies consonants and vowels e.g. stress, intonation, pitch, volume, rate, voice quality

Question 5

Prosody

Answer 5

Patterns of stress and intonation

Question 6

Paralinguistic

Answer 6

Aspects of spoken communication which do not involve words

Question 7

Stress

Answer 7

Stress on words or syllables uses more muscular energy/effort which gives prominence to particular syllables

Question 8

Intonation

Answer 8

When pitch goes up and down

Question 9

Labial

Answer 9

Lips, no tongue

Question 10

Coronial

Answer 10

Tip/blade/front of tongue

Question 11

Dorsal

Answer 11

Back of tongue

Question 12

Sibilant

Answer 12

Grooved tongue surface
/s, z, sh/

Question 13

Non-sibilant

Answer 13

Slit (smooth) tongue surface

Question 14

Obstruent

Answer 14

Major manner class
Plosives, affricates, fricatives
Involve pressure changes and noise in production
Velum is always raised

Question 15

Sonorants

Answer 15

Major manner class
Nasals, approximants, vowels
No pressure change or noise
Always voiced