Lecture 1 Flashcards
Understanding of mechanism behind speech production
Informational domain
The ability to discriminate between di erent sounds
Perceptual domain
What are 3 factors that affect the perceptual domain?
system, linguistic, and response complexity
Includes scoring and transcribing
System complexity
Includes isolations, words, sentences, continuous speech
Linguistic complexity
Includes single sounds and multiple sounds
Response complexity
What is happening between the speaker and hearer
Speech chain model
What are the 5 characteristics of a representation that help us understand and evaluate representational forms?
Resemblance, elucidation, amplification, arbitrary augmentation, reduction and loss
What are some ways we can represent speech?
spectrogram, wave form, sagittal diagram, transcriptions, contact patterns, x-ray microbeam, cineradiography
What are words comprised of?
Sounds and syllables that carry meaning
Mental dictionary of words
Lexicon
is the smallest sound unit that bears meaning.
Morpheme
is the smallest sound unit that does not alone bear meaning
Phoneme
serve as evidence to indicate when two sounds are important enough to distinguish meaning in a language.
Minimal pairs
when allophones share the same phoneme.
Complementary distribution
the phonetic realization of the phoneme; actual speech event
Allophone
refers to when allophones share the same phoneme, but their distribution cannot be explain based on its phonetic context.
Free variation
Morpheme that cannot stand alone, must be attached in order to give meaning
Bound morpheme
What is an example of a bound morpheme?
-s, -er, -ed
Morphemes that can stand on its own
Unbounded morpheme
What is an example of an unbounded morpheme?
Finger, sing
What are the 2 conditions for minimal pairs?
Pairs must have 1 segment different between them, must have different meanings
What is an example of a minimal pair?
fit and sit
