FINAL Flashcards
Phonetics
How we pronounce speech sounds
Pragmatics
Intended meanings behind words
Alphabetic writing system example?
English
What is alphabetic writing system?
Where one character refers to a single sound
What is an issue with the alphabetic system?
Sound-letter correspondance (kernel vs colonel)
What structure does the syllabic writing system usually follow?
CVC
What is Logographic writing system
Every element represents a unit of meaning
Pictograms and pictographs count as a logographic writing system, true or false?
True, things like emojis and traffic symbols are all units of meaning
What is (character) encoding?
Represent and store characters/texts systematically to fit in the computer world
What is trancribing?
A process of converting speech or thoughts into written or print form
Tacit systems?
Represent symbols and meaning with other sensory characteristics
Examples of tacit systems
braille, chromatographic
What are the main acoustic properties of soundwaves?
Amplitude and frequency
What is acoustic phonetics?
Understanding and applying phonetic rules
What is the AI approach to ASR
Combining all other approaches and applying AI models for speech recognition
Non word spelling errors
Misspelled words (the vs teh)
Unrecognized names
Example of a spellchecker?
Auto correct
Lexical verbs
Have a noun-verb agreement
Can have a tense or time preference
(kick, miss, study)
What are some conjunctions?
And, or, but, because
What are some determiners?
This, that, the
What are some prepositions?
on, in, off
Derivational Morpheme?
To derive or create a new word by adding on a prefix or suffix
(er, ness, un)
Inflectional Morpheme?
Adds grammatical meaning as s in cats while keeping the same part of speech (smarter vs smartest)
What are some issues with the dictionary method?
-Long wordlist
-Amount of new words constantly being added
-The need for a general vs a specialized dictionary
What is the n-gram method
Continuous sequence of n items (which can be characters, words, phonemes)
