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Key words Flashcards

1
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what is a Phoneme

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The smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning in a language.

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what is articulation?

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The physical production of speech sounds

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what is the place of articulation?

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The point of contact in that an articulator touches or approaches the other articulator

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what is the Manner of articulation

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How airflow is constricted in the vocal tract during the production of a sound.

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what is Aspiration?

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The small amount of oral breath that occurs on voiceless plosives

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what is voicing?

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whether the vocal folds vibrate or not

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what is Assimulation?

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A concept in connected speech, when one phoneme is influenced by surrounding phonemes in place, voice or manner e.g /tem bisgits/ rather than ten biscuits.

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what are the articulators in an alveolar?

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active articulator- front of the tongue
passive articulator - alveolar ridge

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what is an affricate?

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A plosive combined with a fricative

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what is an active articulator?

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the articulator that moves to make a phoneme

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what is a cardinal vowel?

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a vowel that the tongue is in a particular position for

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what is glottalisation?

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A complete or partial closure of the glottis during the articulation of a sound.

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what is Elision?

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Sounds with appear in single words but can be lost in connected speech e.g., ‘first’ can loose it’s ‘t’ in ‘the first signs’

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what is a glottal stop?

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a constant formed buy complete closure of the glottis

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what is a liason?

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In connected speech where a vowels schwa sound is followed without a pause by another vowel, an /ɹ / is inserted between them.

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what does the manner of articulation mean?

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Manner of articulation – describes how the sound is made and the type of closure. It is a parameter that categorises the airstream and how the turbulence is formed.

16
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what is a nasal?

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Sonorants where the eggressive airsteam is directed into the nasal cavities by the velum being lowered and open with air stopped in the oral cavity.

17
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what is a plosive?

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Plosives are characterised by complete closure in the oral tract preventing airflow from exiting through the mouth.

18
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what is the difference between a phonemic transcription and phonetic

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phonemic = how it should be said ( no diacritics)
Phonetic = how it is said (with a diacritics)

19
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what does pulmonic mean?

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Consonants that depend on an egressive airflow originating from the lungs.

20
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what is sonority?

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Loudness or audibility of a speech sound or segment

21
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what is a suffix?

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a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word

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23
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What is a fricative?

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A sound produced by a narrow construction causing turbulent airflow

24
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What is a plosive

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Complete closure then release of airflow

25
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What is an approximat

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An approximate is construction without creating turbulent air flow

26
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What is a lateral approximant?

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Air flows around the side of the tongue

27
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What is a lateral approximant?

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Air flows around the side of the tongue

28
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What is a trill?

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Rapid repeated contact

29
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What is a tap or flap?

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A single quick contact

30
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What is a lateral fricative?

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Sound produced with lateral airflow

31
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Alveolar

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The tongue contacts the alveolar ridge

32
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What is a postalveolar?

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The tongue contacts the area just behind the alveolar

33
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What is a retro flex?

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The tongue too curls back to contact the area behind the alveolar ridge

34
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What is the palatel

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The tongue contacts the hard palette

35
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What is a velar

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The tongue contacts the soft pallete or velum

36
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What is a uvular?

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The back of the tongue contacts the uvula

37
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What is a pharyngeal?

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The tongue root is retracted towards the pharynx

38
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What is a glottal?

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Sounds produced by the vocal chords

Linguistics of human communication (2 decks)

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