Exam 1 Part 2

Question 1

Understanding of mechanism behind speech production

Answer 1

Informational domain

Question 2

The ability to discriminate between different sounds

Answer 2

Perceptual domain

Question 3

What are 3 factors that affect the perceptual domain?

Answer 3

System, linguistic, response complexity

Question 4

Includes scoring and transcribing

Answer 4

System complexity

Question 5

Includes isolations, words, sentences, continuous speech

Answer 5

Linguistic complexity

Question 6

Includes single sounds and multiple sounds

Answer 6

Response complexity

Question 7

What is happening between the speaker and hearer

Answer 7

Speech chain model

Question 8

What are the 5 characteristics of a representation that help us understand and evaluate representational forms?

Answer 8

Resemblance, elucidation, amplification, arbitrary augmentation, reduction and loss

Question 9

What are some ways we can represent speech?

Answer 9

spectrogram, wave form, sagittal diagram, transcriptions, contact patterns, x-ray microbeam, cineradiography

Question 10

What are words comprised of?

Answer 10

Sounds and syllables that carry meaning

Question 11

Mental dictionary of words

Answer 11

Lexicon

Question 12

is the smallest sound unit that bears meaning.

Answer 12

Morpheme

Question 13

is the smallest sound unit that does not alone bear meaning

Answer 13

Phoneme

Question 14

serve as evidence to indicate when two sounds are important enough to distinguish meaning in a language.

Answer 14

Minimal pairs

Question 15

when allophones share the same phoneme.

Answer 15

Complementary distribution

Question 16

the phonetic realization of the phoneme; actual speech event

Answer 16

Allophone

Question 17

refers to when allophones share the same phoneme, but their distribution cannot be explain based on its phonetic context; an alternative pronunciation of a word (or of a phoneme in a word) that doesn’t affect the word’s meaning

Answer 17

Free variation

Question 18

Morpheme that cannot stand alone, must be attached in order to give meaning

Answer 18

Bound morpheme

Question 19

What is an example of a bound morpheme?

Answer 19

-s, -er, -ed

Question 20

Morphemes that can stand on its own

Answer 20

Unbounded morpheme

Question 21

What is an example of an unbounded morpheme?

Answer 21

Finger, sing

Question 22

What are the 2 conditions for minimal pairs?

Answer 22

Pairs must have 1 segment different between them, must have different meanings

Question 23

What is an example of a minimal pair?

Answer 23

Fit and sit

Question 24

Sounds that you produce in a language

Answer 24

Phonetic inventory

Question 25

All phonemic segments in a given language

Answer 25

Phonemic inventory

Question 26

syllables that have no coda

Answer 26

Open syllables

Question 27

Syllables that have a coda

Answer 27

Closed syllables