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Definition: Phonology
Study of how sounds are put together to form words
Definition: Phonetics
Study of speech sounds, production, acoustic properties, and the written symbols that represent them
Historical Phonetics:
Study of how sounds change over time (new sounds emerging, old sounds disappearing)
Experimental Phonetics
Analyzes physiological movements and acoustic properties with the help of lab instruments
Articulatory Phonetics
how a speaker of a language produces speech sounds (anatomical structures are studied)
Acoustic Phonetics
The properties of sound waves as they travel from the vocal tract to the ear. related to physics of sound
Perceptual phonetics
perception of sounds by the listener / sound awareness and sound interpretaion
Clinical Phonetics
practical application of the knowledge derived from all the other types of phonetics
What is a phone?
Any sound produced by the vocal tract
What is a phoneme?
The minimal sound element
Minimal pairs
similar morphemes except for one phoneme
ex: cat vs hat, par vs car vs tar vs bar
What is an allophone?
- A variation of a phoneme (aspirated or not) that is phonetically similar to the phoneme
- Cannot be different enough that the word meaning is changed
What constitutes “place”
lips, tongue, teeth, palate, velum, alveolar, glottal
bilabials, labiodentals, linguadentals, alveolars, palatals, velars, glottals
What is meant by “manner?”
How the phoneme is produced:
stops, fricatives, affricates, nasals, glides, liquids
What is meant by Distinctive Features?
Consonants fall into 16 characteristics that more discretely identify that particular phoneme. DFs lead us to better develop phonological processes or patterns of phonemes
Continuant
a consonant that isn’t stopped
obstruent
a consonant that is obstructed
strident
those that hiss
How are vowels distinguished?
Tongue position, lip rounding, tense vs lax, sonorant, vocalic, voiced
Phonological Parameters
- Sound inventory of a language
- allowable combination of these sounds (Phonotactics)
- Acceptable allophonic variations: use of diacritical markers
- Morphonphonemic alterations: the alterations made to free morphemes
Diacritical markers of import
Aspiration/released: ( Breathy: .. Shortened: > Lenthened: . Nasalized: ~
symbols used for error reporting
- Omissions: -
- Substitution: use a slash / ; t/k means a /t/ was made when a /k/ should have been
- Distortions and additions: transcribe when possible
Definition of Phonological Process
- patterned modifications of the adult model by normally developing children
- used to describe patterns of errors in children with a phonological disorder
Why do PPs happen?
articulations, phonological awareness issues, hearing issues, cognitive issues, overall delayed development, syndromes and physical impairments, second language
4 Categories of PP
- Syllable structure: phonemes and/or syllables are added or removed
- Reduction: phonemes are removed
- Substitution: phonemes are changed, cross phonemic boundaries
- Assimilation: one phoneme changes to become more like another - also crosses phonemic border
Clinical Phonology
• The system of rules underlying the sound productions and sound combinations
Which phonemes are Stops?
p, b, t, d, k, g, glottal
Which phonemes are fricatives
f, v, th (voiced and voiceless), s, z, shhh, zhhh, h
Which phonemes are affricates?
ch, j