Phonology Flashcards
Accent
The sound of our voices
Received Pronunciation
A type of accent that has upper class associations. Speakers include boris Johnson, Hugh grant, the king
Prosodic features
The tone, pitch, volume, stress, intonation of our voices
Spoonerisms
(Lexis)
A verbal error in which a speaker accidentally mixes up the sounds of 2 or more words (tongue twisters)
Glottal stop
Missing the ‘t’ sound in words and replacing with a burst of air
Eg. Bu’’er rather than butter
Spoonerisms
(Lexis)
A verbal error in which a speaker accidentally mixes up the sounds of two or more words (tongue twisters)
Elision
Slurring sounds (gonna, wanna, d’ya)
Deletion
Dropping phonemes from words (goin’ rather than going)
Schwa vowel
/e/ vowel which sounds like ‘uh’
Alveolar nasal
The /n/ sound such as noise
Velar nasal
The ‘ing’ sound such as dancing
Alveolar plosives
The /t/ and /d/ phonemes (teeth and dog)
Phoneme
Individual sounds in our language, smallest unit of sound. Phonemes are coded via //
Glottal fricative
The /h/ sound such as in the word ‘home’
Dental fricatives
The ‘th’ sound /ø/ (this and those)
/ò/ (birthday)
