Introduction To Phonolgy Flashcards

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What is phonetics?

A

Focused on ‘speech sounds’ (vowels & consonants), of all languages

How sounds are made!

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Phonetic is about articulation, what do you need to be able to do?

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Able to appropriately plan and execute articulators

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What do we do within phonetic analysis?

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Providing a transcription of speech production

Visual Analysis of articulation

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What is phonological knowledge?

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Being Aware of how speech sounds are contrasted and combined to create meaningful words.

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What is phonology?

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Study of how sounds are used and organised in natural language
(Speaker, language, timing etc)

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What is the phonological system when we describe a language/accent speaker?

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How many/which are the vowels?
How many/which are the consonants?
i.e. what are the phonemes?

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What are the three systems in phonological analysis?

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Language
Accent
Speaker

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What is phonology of English?

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What are the vowel, consonants and the rules?

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What is the phonology of scottish english?

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What are the vowels, consonants and the rules?

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Cat         [tat]
Boat        [bot]
Dog        [dat]
Food        [tod]
No        [do]
Go        [do]
Bed        [bod]
Mummy    [bodo]

What is the phonological system?

A

Consonants - /t//d//b/
Vowels /a//o/

Small phonemic repertoire

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What is a phoneme?

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A family of sound- the word we hear

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What i an allophone?

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Members/ variants of this group

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What happens If one sound used in place of a sound from another family (phoneme)?

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The meaning will change

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What happens If one member of the family (allophone) is used in place of the other

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The meaning wont change but will sound odd

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What are examples of allophones?

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/t/- [th] [t=] [?]
/d/- [dw] [d]
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Describe the variant of a phoneme.

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do not change meaning of a word
–are all articulatorily similar to each other
–occur in phonetic contexts different to each other

ALLOPHONE

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What is phonological structure?

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Rules that govern what segments can be used where

18
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What is the minimal pair test?

A

Look at two really similar words where there is only one sound different.

If the meaning changes the sounds are contrastive (phonemes)

Ask if patient can tell the difference

19
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can you predict the environment in which [tʰ] appears?
[ tʰak] tack
[ stɔp] stop
[ tʰɛn]  ten
[stip]  steep
[ tʰwen] twain
[ tʰɹuӨ] truth
A

Beginning

Not after S

20
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What is a minimal opposing pair?

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K & g - differ only in place

21
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What is a maximal opposing pair?

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M & s - differ in P, M & V

22
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What are Near minimal pairs?

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Scar and car

23
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What are the three degrees of pairs

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Minimal
Maximal
Near

24
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Are k and x contrastive in scottish english?

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Lock
Loch

^ meaning changes - so yes

Docherty - allophone

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Are [p] and [ph] contrastive in Thai? [paan] like [pʰaan] tray with pedestal [baan] classifier
Yes
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What are two allophones in Korean language? What are the rules?
/l/ and /r/ Rules; [r] used before vowel, [l] elsewhere
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[s] in ‘sit’, ‘soot’, ‘some’, ‘bus’ BUT [x] in ’books’, ‘walks’ [s] and [x] are allophones Why?
Because of the velar [k]
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What is complimentary distribution?
When two allophones are mutually exclusive: | they appear in different environments
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What can complimentary distribution sounds not be?
Sounds in complimentary distribution cannot be contrastive
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What is free variation?
When allophones are unconditioned by environment Speaker can choose E.g. [piʔ] or [pit] Social information Region, style