SPHP Exam 1 Flashcards
Phonetics
The study of speech sounds, their production, acoustic properties, and the written symbols
Historical Phonetics
History of phonetics and how sounds change over time
Acoustic Phonetics
Sound waves of each phoneme
Perceptual Phonetics
How sounds are perceived
Articulatory Phonetics
How articulators make individual sound
Clinical Phonetics
Application of all stuff prior
Phone
Any sound produced by the vocal tract
Phoneme
The minimal sound elements that represent and distinguise the linguistic units of words or morphemes
Allophone
A variation of a phoneme created by the phoneme context; aspirated VS. not
Minimal Pairs
Similar morphemes except for one phoneme
Free morphemes can?
Stand alone
EX: crash
Bound morphemes cannot?
Stand alone
EX: es
Virgules
Slashes for phonemes word has meaning
EX: /caet/
Brackets
Talking about physical & production boundaries
Prevocalic Consonants
-Initial or releasing (Before vowel)
Intervocalic Consonants
-Medial (Between 2 vowels)