Kerfelec Part Flashcards
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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