Phonetics and Phonology Flashcards
PROSODIC FEATURES
Stress
Intonation
Pitch
Tempo
Volume
Stress
Emphatic stress, emphasis on a word or sound or sentence
Intonation
Happens to part of a word
Pitch goes up - question or listening
Pitch goes down - finishing question or sentence
Pitch
Happens to whole word or sentence
High pitch - scared or nervous
Low pitch - serious
Tempo
The pace you talk
- Fast
- Slow
Volume
Speaking loud or soft
PHONOLOGICAL PATTERNING
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Rhyme
Alliteration
Repeated sound at the start of words in sentences
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds inside words
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Onomatopoeia
Words for sounds
Rhythm
Intonation of a set of words is repeated across 2 or more
Rhyme
End of the word sounds similar
SPEECH PROCESSES
Assimilation
Vowel reduction
Elision
Insertion
Connected speech processes
Assimilation
What happens when we squish sounds together to make them easier
- Sandwich turns into sanwich
Vowel reduction
When we don’t drop the vowel but we shorten it
Do you want to go to the bbq
Da you want te go te the bbq
Elision
Drop the sound completely - unstressed syllable
Want to - wanna
February - febry
Insertion
Difficult consonant cluster therefore a sound (usually vowel) is added (non english speakers usually)
Gymnastics - gymanastics
Appointment - appointament
Connected speech processes
Things we do without thinking about them
