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1
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Accent

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The sound of our voice

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Intonation

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Rise and fall of our voices

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Prosodic features

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Includes features such as stress, volume, rhythm, pitch, tempo and intonation

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Assonance

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Repeated vowel sounds in a word

E.g. Kwik Fit

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Phoneme

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Individual unit of sound

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Fricative

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Uses airflow

/f/ /v/ /th/

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Plosive

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Denoting a consonant produced by stopping airflow with teeth

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Glottal stop

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Omission of the t sound

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Schwa

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Unstressed central vowel

E.g. the a sound in Emma

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Received Pronunciation

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Educated accent, typically British

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G-dropping

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Missing the /g/ phoneme off the ends of utterances

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Elision

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Slurring words together

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Dental fricative

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Th sound

/θ/ (voiceless) /ð̼/ (voiced)

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Labiodental fricative

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/f/ (voiceless) and /v/ (voiced)

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Rhotacism

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Emphasis of the /r/ phoneme

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16
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Consonant clusters

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Where two or more consonant phonemes father together without a vowel

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Italics

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Using emphasis in language use on particular words

Creates varied prosody

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Bilabial plosives

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/b/ (voiced) and /p/ (voiceless)

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Alveolar plosive

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/t/ (voiceless) /d/ (voiced)

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Alveolar fricative

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/s/

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Substitution

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  • Replacing a difficult phoneme for an easier one

* BE CAREFUL - could be an accent feature!

22
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Assimilation

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  • Where a neighbouring sound is impacted by another
  • A from of substitution as one sound will be substituted for another
  • E.g. saying ‘lellow’ for ‘yellow’
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Weak syllable deletion (deletion)

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  • Deletion of unstressed syllables

* E.g. pyjamas -> jamas

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Initial consonant deletion (deletion)

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  • Deletion of the first consonant

* E.g. green -> reen

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Final consonant deletion (deletion)

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  • Deletion of the end consonant
  • E.g. about -> abou
  • Could be a spontaneity/spoken mode/accent feature
26
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Digraph

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Two letters written together to represent a single sound

E.g. ch, ck, gh, ai, au, ea

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Diphthong

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A vowel sound that is composed of a sequence of two vowels

-E.g. high, late

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What is the place of articulation?

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These are the places where constrictions/obstructions of air occur.
I.e. WHERE

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What is the manner of articulation?

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The arrangement and interaction of the speech organs when making a speech sound.
I.e. HOW

30
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Disyllabic

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A word consisting of 2 syllables

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Labiodentals (place)

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Occur when you block/constrict airflow by curling your lower lip back and raising it to touch your upper row of teeth
/f/ /v/

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Dentals (place)

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Occur when you block/constrict airflow by placing your tongue against your upper teeth
/θ/ /ð̼/

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Bilabials (place)

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Occur when you block/constrict airflow by bringing your lips together
/p/ /b/ /m/

34
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Alveolars (place)

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Occur when you raise your tongue to the alveolar ridge

/n/ /t/ /d/ /s/ /z/ /l/ /r/

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What’s an alveolar ridge?

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Where your teeth meet your gums

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Post-alveolars (place)

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Occur when the tongue blocks/constricts airflow at the point just beyond the alveolar ridge
/ʃ/ /ʒ/ /tʃ/ /dʒ/

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Palatals (place)

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Occur when you raise the tongue to the hard plate to block/constrict airflow
/j/

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What’s a hard plate?

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The roof of your mouth

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Velars (place)

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Occur when you raise the back of your tongue to the velum, blocking/restricting airflow
/ŋ/ /k/ /g/

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Labial velars (place)

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Produced in same way as velars

/w/

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Glottals (place)

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Aren’t really consonants but play consonant roles in the language.
Produced at the glottis
/h/
/?/ (the /t/ phoneme is often dropped)

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Nasals (manner)

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Created when you completely block airflow through your mouth and let the air pass through your nose

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Plosives (manner)

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Also called ‘stops’
Occur when vocal tract is closed completely; the air quickly builds up pressure behind the articulators and then releases in a burst

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Fricative (manner)

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Only involve a partial blockage, so air has to be forced through a narrow channel

45
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Affricate (manner)

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Fusion of plosives and fricatives

46
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Allophone

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A variation of a phoneme

E.g. the alveolar lateral has a light l in the word luck and a dark l in the word bell

47
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Near-close near-back rounded vowel

A

/ʊ/

48
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Spoonerism

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  • Mixing sounds in words

* E.g. a flock of bats instead of a block of flats

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Omission spelling

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  • Missing a grapheme

* E.g. missing in ‘watch’

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