Kerfelec Part Flashcards
Phonology
The study of the sound of a specific language
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Letter
/b/
Sound phoneme
(Phonemic transcription)
[b]
Sound allophone
(Phonetics transcription)
Air is blocked and suddenly burst out ex /d/ /t/ /b/
Plosive
Air partially blocked and escape trough the narrow place/h/ /s/ /f/
Fricative
Start as plosive and ends as fricative ex: ts(tch) dź
Affricate
Air escapes through nose, and soft palate lowered ex : /m/ /n/ /ñ/
Nasals
Tongue blocks the way, air goes around ex: /l/
Laterals
Articulatiors are close but don’t touch , nothing blocks the air ex: /r/ /w/ /j/
Approximants
Ancient Egypt
Logographies : words and sentences
Japanese
Syllabaries : syllables
Chinese
Logosyllabic: words and syllables
French - english
Sound symbols
Arabic
Abjads Consonants
Hindi
Abugida: consonants and vowels sequences
IPA
International phonetic alphabet
Minimal pair
2 words sounding similar but for one sound ex: rot lot
Minimal set
Distinguish a word from another by one letter ex: man-mean
Sound or letter between two vowels
Ex: be’tt’er - se’p’ara’t’ion
Intervocalic
Allophones
Various changes that don’t change the meaning (accent, age…)
Phoneme
Distinct unit of the sound of a specific language
Descriptive label
How were vibrations ex:
/p/ is a voiceless bilabial plosive
Lax vs tense vowel
[ı] ->ae [i]-> ii :
Sit seat
Fit feet
OLD transformation rule
<o> followed by : /lk/ /ld/ or /ll/
Ex: old, folk, cold, poll
</o>
ALL BALD transformation rule
<a> followed by /lt/ /lk/ /ld/ /ll/
Ex: talk walk tall</a>
CAKE RULE
Vowel +consonant+ vowel pronounced as diphtongs ex: FACE
OR tense value ex : l[i]ve or g[i]ve
SIT STILL rule
Any vowel except shwa is followed by 2 consonant (except <r>) is pronounced as a lax value ex: still, cup..</r>
ASK/BATH words
Words were <a> should be pronounced /ae/ but it’s pronounced /a:/ ex: ask , aunt, basket, past, path, disaster…</a>
Manners of articulation
Obstruant or sonorant
Places of articulation 8
Bilabial,labiodental,dental,alveolar,
palatoalveolar,palatin,velar,glottal
Ordre de descriptive label
1-VOICED OR VOICELESS
2-Places of articulation
3-Manners of articulation