Phonetics Flashcards
phonetics
study of minimal units that make up language
minimal units of spoken language
consonants, vowels, melodies, rhythms
three phonetic studies
articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditory phonetics
articulatory phonetics
study of production of speech sounds
acoustic phonetics
study of transmission and physical properties of speech sounds
auditory phonetics
study of perception of speech sounds
phone
one sound
segment
discrete unit of speech (consonants and vowels)
suprasegmentals
properties that aren’t discrete - stress, tone, intonation
consonants
produced with constriction along vocal tract
vowels
produced with free airflow through vocal tract
in phonetic alphabet one symbol represents
one sound (phone)
if two sounds distinguish one word from another, they should
be represented by different symbols
if two sounds are very similar, and differences arise only in specific contexts, then
same symbol is still used
syllable
unit of speech that can contain a single sound or multiple sounds (composed of rhyme and onset)
rhyme
vowel and following consonants of a syllable
rhyme composed of
coda and nucleus
nucleus
vocal part
coda
final consonants
onset
consonants preceding the rhyme
monophthongs
simple vowels - single configuratoin of vocal tract
diphthongs
complex vowels - sequence of two configurations of vocal tract
running/continuous speech
casual talk - pronounciation differs from when each separate word is pronounced
articulation
motion/positioning of vocal tract for production of speech