Phonology Flashcards
Connected Speech Process: Assimilation
Make one sound segment phonologically similar to an adjacent segment
Connected Speech Process: Elision
Dropping sounds to ease articulation
Connected Speech Process: Vowel Reduction
Reduction of the quality of vowel sounds to ease articulation
Connected Speech Process: Insertion
Adding a sound where there wouldn’t normally be one
Phonological patterning: Alliteration
Sequence of words that use the same consonant at beginning
Phonological patterning: Assonance
Use same vowel sound
Phonological patterning: Consonance
Use same consonant sound
Phonological patterning: Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they describe (bang)
Prosodic features: Pitch
How high or low the sounds are
Prosodic features: Intonation
Change in pitch over an utterance
Prosodic features: Stress
Emphasis on a particular syllable
Prosodic features: Tempo
The speed
Prosodic features: Volume
The sound
Connected speech processes
Assimilation
Elision
Vowel Reduction
Insertion
Phonological patterning
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Rhyme
