Test 1 vocab Flashcards
Allophones
Variant of phoneme in a particular language; often very similar to one another (aspirated/unaspirated p)
Alveolar:
Consonant produced at the alveolar ridge behind upper teeth (i.e. /l/)
Amplification
process used to increase the intensity of sound
Apraxia
motor difficulty particularly involving consonant sequence →suspected childhood apraxia of speech
Articulation
Movements of the speech production mechanism to produce speech sounds
Coarticulation:
The related overlapping articulatory influences that occur as sounds are produced
Assimilation
A sound change in which one sound is influenced by another and changes to become identical to it
Cognates
Consonant sounds that differ from each other only by voicing; place and manner of articulation are the same
Consonants
A sound that is produced by a partially or completely constricted vocal cord
Dental
A consonant sound produced with contact of the tongue and teeth
Diacritics
Special marks used with the symbols of the IPA to add more details to phonetic transcriptions
Dialect
A variety of a language spoken by a group
Diphthongs
2 vowels produced consecutively in the same syllable by moving the articulators smoothly from one position to the other so that together they serve as the nucleus of the syllables
Distinctive Features/Binary:
A universal set of phonetic characteristics that differentiate speech sounds. Each phoneme differs from all others by at least one distinctive feature
Distortions
Deviation in production that is non phonemic i.e. lisp
Graphemes
Written or printed letters that may or may not correspond to phonemes
Digraphs
2 letters yielding one sound i.e. sh
Idiolect
Speech that is characteristic of a single individual
Intelligibility
The degree to which others can understand a person’s speech
IPA
International Phonetic Alphabet→symbols that have been assigned for each phoneme across all the world’s language
Labial
Sound produced with the lips (bilabial & labiodental), one of the articulator nodes in geometry
Lisp
frontal, interdental, lateral; occur within mild and moderate severities distortions
Metaphonology/ Phonological Awareness
reflecting on and understanding aspects of phonetics/phonology independent of meaning→ important for literacy acquisition in English
Minimal Pairs
Words that differ by one phoneme i.e. bit & hit