Phonology Flashcards
Accent
the sound of our voices
received pronunciation
an accent with posh connotations
sometimes called the Queens English
Glottal Stop
missing the /t/ sound in words replacing it with a burst of air
How is the glottal stop coded
/ʔ/
Prosodic Features
The tone, pitch, intonation, stress and volume of our voices
Spoonerism
Verbal error where the speaker accidentally mixes the sound of two or more words e.g lack of pies instead of pack of lies
Schwa Vowel
/ə/ makes the ‘uh’ sound
Phoneme
the smallest unit of sound
glottal fricative
/h/ sound
dental fricatives (voiced and voiceless)
/ð/ - voiced
/θ/- voiceless
Labiodental Fricatives (voiced and voiceless)
/f/ - voiceless
/v - voiced
Alveolar Nasal
/n/
Velar nasal
/ŋ/
Alveolar plosives (voiced and voiceless)
/t/ - voiceless
/d/ - voiced
monophthong vowels
vowels that stay in one position in the mouth
diphthong vowels
moving vowels
Rhotacism / Rhotic Accent
using the /r/ phoneme or /a:/ vowel as elongation
Utterance
spoken sentence
consonant clusters
where two or more consonants are grouped together - children can find these difficult to say
homophones
words which have the same pronounciation
bilabial plosives (voiced and voiceless)
/p/ - voiceless
/b/ - voiced
assimilation
a sound change where some phonemes change to become more similar to other nearby sounds
the process where sounds in separate words merge together
Elision
removing sounds to make words easier to say
homonyms
words which are homophones and homographs
alveolar fricatives
/s/ - voiceless
/z/ - voiced
homograph
words which are spelt the same but have different meanings
strut vowel
monophthong vowels
/ʌ/
near close, near back rounded vowel
monophthong vowel
/ʊ/
