Final Review Flashcards
Labial
between the lips
Labialdental
w/ lips and teeth
Interdental
Between the teeth
Velar
made with the tongue near thesoft palat (at the back of the roof of the mouth)
Stops
The flow of air actually stops as the sound is articulated
Affricatives
Begin like stops (t and d) but end like fricatives (s and z)
Nasals
Made by blocking the mouth and letting the air flow through the nasal cavity
Liquids
made as air flows around the sides of the tounge (laterals)
Retroflex
made by the tounge bending back as the air flows
Semivowels
produced with unrestricted air flow like vowels, but can be followed by vowels
Suprasegmental
are sound modifications that signal meaning other than segmental phonemes (combinations of sounds).
Pitch
The vocal Levels at which sound is produced
2 A Raised 2
represnts the level of pitch known as Rising Pitch, used when we begin to speak.
3A superscript 3
represents the level of pitch (volume) when we are at the accented syllable of the word that gets most stress in an utterance.
1A superscript 1
represents the falling away of pitch as we come to the end of a grammatical unit.
4Level 4
is rarely used except in statements of strong fear, anger, excitement, etc.
The Dog at the Bone
2The dog ate the 3bo′ne1.↓
After the dance, the three giggle girls went to wendy’s.
2After the 3dance,2→2the three giggling cheerleaders went to 3We′ndy’s1.↓
In symbolizing a intonation contour, pitch should be marked in three places:
At the beginning of the contour (grammatical unit)
At the beginning of the syllable bearing the primary stress
At the end of the unit before the terminal (the punctuation mark indicating closure)
Two Patterns of Pitch
231 and 233 (232)
231
Used in giving commands
Used in questions that begin with a question word (Who, what, when, where, why, how, etc.)
Used in statements/declarative sentences
2Today is 3 Th’ursday1↓.
231
2Please shut the 3w′indow1.↓
231
2Who is that striking 3w′oman1?↓
231
233 (232) Pattern
Yes or No questions in question form
Yes or No questions in statement form
Initial grammatical units
2Are you going to the 3c′oncert tonight3?↑
233
2You are Mary’s 3b′rother3?
233
Stress
is the emphasis (or lack of emphasis) placed on a syllable.
Four Levels of Stress
Primary stress– denoted by a ‘
Secondary stress—denoted by a ^
Tertiary (or mid) stress—denoted by a `
Unaccented syllables—denoted by a ˘
Primary Stress
a ‘
Secondary Stress
a ^
Tertiary (or mid) stress
a `
Unaccented Syllables
a ˘
In a two-syllable noun, which syllable usually gets primary stress?
the first syllable
In a two syllable verb,, which syllable egts the primary stress?
the second syllable
Produce as a verb
Prod’uce
Produce as a noun
‘produce
Stress Patterns: Compound Nouns
′ `, primary stress on the first syllable and mid stress on the other major syllable.
Adjective- Noun
^ ′
Verb and Noun Object
^ ′
Verb-adverb
^ ′
Gradation
The changing of a sound in a word when the word is spoken with different levels of stress.
I have two dogs.
Juncture
The pauses in speech (terminal or internal)
Terminal Juncture
closed juncture, coes at the end of contours
Internal Junction
Plus or Open Contours, comes withing words or between words.
↓
This mark is used with declarative sentences, imperatives, and questions beginning with question words.
↑
This mark is used with yes/no questions and with initial grammatical units.
Syncope
ommision of sound from within a word.
ex:
“bizness” for buisness
“govment” for government
Apocope
Omission of sound from the end of a word
ex: gonna for going
VOice Assimilation
making a sound more like the sounds surrounding it through voicing.
ex: budder for butter
mudder for mutter
Place Assimilation
Chaning the place a sound is made
ex: grandma becomes gramma
Dissimilation
Changing a sound to make it less like those around it.
Puntit for Pundit
Gemination
Eliminating a difficult-to-pronounce sequence of sounds resulting from adding a prefix to a base by dropping the final consonant of the prefix and doubling the first letter of the base.
Metathesis
reversalof sounds within a word
prettybecome purty
Epenthesis
addition of sound within a word
athlete becomes athelete
Epithesis
addition of sound at the end of a word
across becomes acrosst
Gradation
a chenge in sound resulting form a shift in stress
Phonology
the study of units of sound
Phone
the smallest unit of sound
Phoneme
a sound in its variations as long as meaning does not change
Allophone
an insignificant variable of a poneme
In a two-syllable noun, which syllable usually gets primary stress?
the first syllable
In a two syllable verb,, which syllable egts the primary stress?
the second syllable
Gradation
The changing of a sound in a word when the word is spoken with different levels of stress.
I have two dogs.
Juncture
The pauses in speech (terminal or internal)
Terminal Juncture
closed juncture, coes at the end of contours
Internal Junction
Plus or Open Contours, comes withing words or between words.
↓
This mark is used with declarative sentences, imperatives, and questions beginning with question words.
+
This mark is used with internal juncture.
Invention
words created from no existing morphemes or phonestheme
Compounding words
words formed by the joining of two or more free morphemes into a single word
Derivation
forming of new words by combining derivational affixes or bound bases with existing words
blending (portmanteau words)
combining two or more parts from two or more existing words
Clip formations
elimination part of a word
Backformation
forming a new word form an existing one, usually verb from a noun, nearly always changing the part of speech
Echoism (onomatopoeia)
words in which the sounds suggest meaning
Reduplication
word with repeating sounds or syllables
Functional Shift
the use of the same word as more than one part of speech
Antonomasia (commonization)
words derived from proper names
Folk etymology (malapropism, Archie Bunker-ism)
using a word in an improper way because of association with a known word or situation, often creating a new word ex: Hearing a song and misunderstanding a word, mishearing something and then creating a new word.
Generalization
giving a more general meaning to a narrow term ex: go- to go by any means of transportation when it once meant to walk, starve- now means to die of hunger, once meant to die
Specialization
narrowing the meaning of a word
Pejoration
giving a derogatory meaning to a word ex: fool used to mean court jester, and now it means idiot.
Amelioration
a once uncomplimentary word now has a more positive meaning. ex: bomb: they dropped a bomb vs. you’re the bomb- wicked: evil vs. cool
Euphemism
substitution of a more pleasant phrase for something unpleasant
Trade Name
using the name of a particular product to refer to and item. ex: coke for soda, Kleenex for tissue, xerox for copy
Phonesthemes
sound combinations that has come to have meaning, units of sound that seem to have meaning but are not true morphemes: fly, flip, flow; glisten, glow, glitter
homogrpahs
words that look alike but have different sounds and meanings: wind a clock, the wind blows; write a resume, resume a project
homophone
words that sound the same but have different meanings: two, to, too
ad-
to, toward
ab-
away from
ante-
before
anti-
against
circum-
around
com-, co-
with, together
contra-
against
de-
down, from
dis-
apart from
hyper-
over
epi-
on, upon
ex-
out of, from
in-
into or not
mis-
wrong
non-
not
ob-
against
per-
through
pro-
forward
re-
back, again
sub-
under
trans-
across
post-
after
un-
not (negates)
pre-
before
inter-
between
intra-
within
an-
without
extra-
beyond
cata-
down
dia-
across
sur-
over
auto-
self
neo-
new
cap (cep,cip)
take, sieze
cid(cis)
cut, kill
dic
say,speak
duc
lead
fer,lat
bear, carry
fac (fec, fic)
do, make
mitt (miss)
send
pon, pos
place, put
port
carry
scrib (scrip)
write
spec
see
ten
hold
ten (tend, tens)
stretch
ven
come
vid (vis)
see
voc
call
sto (sta)
stand
plic, plex
fold, bend
graph
write
doc
teach
aud
hear
ago, eg, ac
do, act
ann, enn
year
pel
drive, force
tang, tac
touch
curr, curs
run