ELS 104 (Phonology & Morphology) Flashcards
unit of speech sound
phone
actual sound
phone
studies how humans make the sound of a specific word
phone
appears in square brackets
phone
smallest unit of speech
phoneme
set of phones
phoneme
appears in slashes
phoneme
forms when two consonants work together to create a completely different sound
digraphs
different ways you can say a word
Allophone
another way to pronounce a phoneme
allophone
study of patterns of sounds
Phonology
two vowels that work together to form another sound
Dipthongs
crop, crack, creep are examples of
C-sounds that make /k/
central, cent, cite are examples of
c-sounds that make an /s/
7 Digraphs Phonemes
/ch/, /sh/, /ng/, /th/ (voiced & unvoiced), /zh/, /wh/
5 R-controlled phonemes
/a(r)/, /ā(r) /, /i (r)/, /o(r) / & /u(r)
Standard accent of english
Received Pronounciation
parts of the tounge
tip, blade, front, center and back
extreme end of tounge
tip
tapering area of the tongue
blade
opposite of the hard palate
front
opposite of the meeting point of hard and soft palate
center
opposite of the soft palate
back
Process of producing speech sounds
initiation, phonation, oro-nasal and articulation