Rule format Flashcards
continuants
continuous stream of airflow out of mouth (everything but nasal and stops)
sonorants
relatively free airflow (everything but fricatives stops and affricatives
obstruents
partially blocked aifrlow (stops fricatives and affricatives)
labials
bilabial and labialdental
coronals
aveolar, alveopalatal and palatals. Raised towards aveloar ridge or hard palate
anteriors
front facing ( biliabial labiadental and interdental and aveolar
Silibants
friction hissing sounds: fricative or affricative near aveolar ridge
phonetics
study of physical properties
phonology
mental represntation
phoneme
abstract mental represntation of a sound
represnted by / /
phone
actual pronunciation []
allophones
predictable phonetic variants of a phoneme.
minimal pairs
two words which differin in meaning and are identical except for one phone in the same positon
rule format
/phoneme/ -> [phone]/ENVIRONMENT