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1
Q

what type of diacritics is used here?
[ɚ]

A

rhoticity

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2
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what type of diacritic is used here?
[tʰ]

A

aspiration

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3
Q

what type of diacritic is used here?
[ẽ]

A

nasalisation

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4
Q

what type of diacritic is used here?
[lʲ]

A

palatalisation

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5
Q

what type of diacritic is used here?
[a:]

A

long vowel

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6
Q

what type of diacritic is used here?
[lˠ]

A

velarisation

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7
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what type of diacritic is used here?
[ d̪ ]

A

dental

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8
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which of the dental fricatives /θ/ or /ð/ is voiced?

A

/ð/

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9
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which of the labiodental fricatives /f/ or /v/ is voiced?

A

/v/

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10
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which of the alveolar fricatives /s/ or /z/ is voiced?

A

/z/

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11
Q

which of the post-alveolar fricatives /ʃ/ or /ʒ/ is voiced?

A

/ʒ/

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12
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what are the two labiodental fricatives?

A

/f/ and /v/

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13
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what are the two dental fricatives?

A

/θ/ and /ð/

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14
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what are the two alveolar fricatives?

A

/s/ and /z/

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15
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what are the two post-alveolar fricatives?

A

/ʃ/ and /ʒ/

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16
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what is the voiceless glottal fricative?

A

/h/

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17
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what is the voiceless labial-velar fricative?

A

/ʍ/

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18
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what are the 6/7 plosives?

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/p/ /b/ /t/ /d/ /g/ /k/ /ʔ/

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19
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what are the two bilabial plosives?

A

/p/ and /b/

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20
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which of the two bilabial plosives (/p/ and /b/) is voiced?

A

/b/

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21
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what are the two alveolar plosives?

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/t/ and /d/

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22
Q

which of the alveolar plosives (/t/ and /d/) is voiced?

A

/d/

23
Q

what are the two velar plosives?

A

/k/ and /g/

24
Q

which of the two velar plosives (/k/ and /g/) is voiced?

A

/g/

25
Q

what are the three nasals?

A

/m/ /n/ /ŋ/

26
Q

what is the bilabial nasal?

A

/m/

27
Q

what is the alveolar nasal?

A

/n/

28
Q

what is the velar nasal?

A

/ŋ/

29
Q

what is the glottal plosive?

A

/ʔ/

30
Q

what are the 3 approximants? (only needed for test)

A

/j/ /W/ /ɹ/

31
Q

what is the voiced alveolar LATERAL approximant?

A

/l/

32
Q

what is the voiced palatal approximant?

A

/j/

33
Q

what is the voiced alveolar approximant?

A

/ɹ/

34
Q

what is the voiced labial velar approximant?

A

/W/

35
Q

consonants are described in terms of? (4)

A

-voice
(-airstream mechanism)
-place of articulation
-manner of articulation

36
Q

How are vowels are described? (3/5)

A

-Height
-front/back position
-lip shape
(-nasalisation)
(-length)

37
Q

what is nasalisation?

A

when air flows through the oral and nasal cavities as opposed to just oral

38
Q

what are the semi-vowels/glides? (3)

A

/j/, /w/ /M/

39
Q

what is a semi-vowel/glide ?

A

they combine elements of vowels & consonants & when produced a gliding movemnet between artiuclars occur

40
Q

what are obstruents?

A

sounds involving a greater degree of air obstructions (e.g. stops, fricatives, affricates )

41
Q

what are sonorants?

A

sounds involving a wider vocal tract (approximants, glides, vowels)

42
Q

which out of obstruents and sonorants can be both voiced and voiceless?- compared to the other which is usually voiced

A

obstruents

43
Q

minimal pairs=

A

pairs of words that are distinguished by only 1 sound (e.g. kit and cat- /kit/ /kat/)

44
Q

allophones=

A

phonetically similar, alternate ways of saying a phoneme (e.g. /n/ in “tend” “tenth” “net”- also /^/ vs /ʊ/)

45
Q

which brackets are used to transcribe phonemes?

A

//

46
Q

Brackets [] are used to transcribe what?

A

allophones

47
Q

what is a phone?

A

speech sound that does not rely on being classified as a phoneme or allophone (e.g. ʊ)

48
Q

what is a segment?

A

minimal chunk of speech (can be phones or morphs)

49
Q

what is a suprasegment?

A

above & beyond a segment- includes: prosody, syllables, stress, tone

50
Q

phonotactics=

A

how segments are sequenced in a syllables, specific to a particular language (e.g. /ɳ/ can only occur syllable finally in eng)

51
Q

structure of a syllable= (4)

A

-onset (O)
-rhyme (R) (contains N + C)
-nucleus (N)
-coda (C)

52
Q

what features are used to convey prosodic features (such as stress, tone & intonation)?

A

-variation in pitch, volume & duration

53
Q

what is funamental frequency?

A

vibration rate of vocal folds

BA- English language & linguistics (year 1) (5 decks)

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