Final Flashcards
When a segment becomes more like some other (neighbouring) segment in the environment.
Assimilation.
Like assimilation in that it involves one sounds becoming like another segment across intervening consents.
Vowel Harmony.
When consonants assimilate at a distance, across intervening vowels and sometimes other consonants. (Common in child language).
Consonant Harmony.
Velars and/or coronals become post alveolar or palatal before high and.or from vowel.
Palatalization.
When stops undergo palatalization they often become?
Affricates.
When a stop becomes a fricative. (Often between vowels or other sonorant continuants).
Spirantization.
Strength hierarchy?
Stops > Fricatives >Nasals > Liquids >Vowels
Laryngeals: Aspirated > Voiceless > Voiced.
Any process that causes a sounds from a stronger (more obstruent) one to a weaker (more sonorant) one is?
Lenition.
When a segment becomes less like some other segment in the environment.
Dissimilation.
The insertion of segment, often to maintain a well-formed syllable structure in a given language.
Epenthesis.
The deletion of segment, often to maintain a well-formed syllable structure in a given language.
Deletion.
What is the difference between intonation and pitch?
Intonation refers to variation in pitch that occurs over the course of phases or sentences where as tone is used by languages to encode meaning in different realizations in pitch.
What is the phonemic principle?
that in any given language, sounds are either phonetic (contrastive) or allophonic (complementary distribution).
What is a natural class?
a group of sounds that share a phonetic feature or set of features that no other sounds in the language share.
What is a minimal pair?
two words that share all but one segment.
