Terminology Flashcards
What is Coarticulation?
Overlapping articulators
What is Assimilation?
phoneme takes on the phonetic character of neighboring sounds due to coarticulation
What is Elision?
take away a sound from a word as a result of coarticulation associated with connected speech
What is Epenthesis?
add a sound to a word during speech production as a result of coarticulation
What is Metathesis?
the moving around of a sound in a word (two sounds that switch)
What is Vowel Reduction
the full form of a vowel is produced with less weight due to more central production in the oral cavity
What are Suprasegmentals?
feature of speech production, such as stress, intonation, and timing, that transcends the sound level
What is primary stress?
Stress that takes on the most emphasis
What is Sentence Stress?
the word in the sentence that allows you to know what is important
What is content Words
important words (Noun, verb, adjective, or adverb)
What are function words?
not important words (pronoun, article, preposition, or conjunction)
What is given information?
previous exchange of words, or shared world knowledge (won’t be stressed)
What is New Information?
exchange of words between two conversational participants (will be stressed)
What is Intonation?
modification in voice pitch
What is tempo?
timing, or durational aspect, of connected speech
What is Juncture?
transitional pauses and breaks between syllables and words in speech production
What is diacritics?
special phonetic symbols to represent both allophonic production as well as suprasegmental features in speech
What is phonological processes?
simplifications used by children not capable of producing adult speech patterns
What is natural phonology theory?
Stampe’s theory that supports the idea that children are both born with innate processes necessary for the development of speech
