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1
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Accent

A

the sound of our voices

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2
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received pronunciation

A

an accent with posh connotations
sometimes called the Queens English

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Glottal Stop

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missing the /t/ sound in words replacing it with a burst of air

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4
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How is the glottal stop coded

A

/ʔ/

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5
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Prosodic Features

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The tone, pitch, intonation, stress and volume of our voices

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6
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Spoonerism

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Verbal error where the speaker accidentally mixes the sound of two or more words e.g lack of pies instead of pack of lies

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7
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Schwa Vowel

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/ə/ makes the ‘uh’ sound

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8
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Phoneme

A

the smallest unit of sound

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9
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glottal fricative

A

/h/ sound

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10
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dental fricatives (voiced and voiceless)

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/ð/ - voiced
/θ/- voiceless

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Labiodental Fricatives (voiced and voiceless)

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/f/ - voiceless
/v - voiced

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12
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Alveolar Nasal

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/n/

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13
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Velar nasal

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/ŋ/

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Alveolar plosives (voiced and voiceless)

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/t/ - voiceless
/d/ - voiced

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15
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monophthong vowels

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vowels that stay in one position in the mouth

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16
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diphthong vowels

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moving vowels

17
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Rhotacism / Rhotic Accent

A

using the /r/ phoneme or /a:/ vowel as elongation

18
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Utterance

A

spoken sentence

19
Q

consonant clusters

A

where two or more consonants are grouped together - children can find these difficult to say

20
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homophones

A

words which have the same pronounciation

21
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bilabial plosives (voiced and voiceless)

A

/p/ - voiceless
/b/ - voiced

22
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assimilation

A

a sound change where some phonemes change to become more similar to other nearby sounds
the process where sounds in separate words merge together

23
Q

Elision

A

removing sounds to make words easier to say

24
Q

homonyms

A

words which are homophones and homographs

25
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alveolar fricatives

A

/s/ - voiceless
/z/ - voiced

26
Q

homograph

A

words which are spelt the same but have different meanings

27
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strut vowel

A

monophthong vowels
/ʌ/

28
Q

near close, near back rounded vowel

A

monophthong vowel
/ʊ/

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