Week 1 Flashcards
What is clinical phonetics?
Using Phonetics for clinical assessment of speech disorders
What is phonetics?
Study of production and perception of speech sounds
Why is the IPA used?
Ordinary spelling of the words my not reflect how the word is pronounced
What is linguistic complexity?
The linguistic level that is being focused on
Can be syllable, word, phrase, sentence, conversation
What is response complexity?
The sounds that you are practicing
Can be single sound or multiple sound
What is system complexity?
Two-Way scoring: Is the response expected or unexpected?
Five-way scoring: Determine if it is expected or unexpected, and then classify mistakes. Can be classified by deletions, substitutions, distortions, additions
Phonetic transcription
What is language?
A shared code
Uses rule-governed combinations of symbols to represent ideas, thoughts, and feelings
What is speech?
A modality of language
An oral transmission of meaning
What is a dialect?
Different usage patterns of language
They can vary in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar
What is a morpheme?
The smallest element of language that contains meaning
There are bound and unbound morphemes
What is a phoneme?
The most basic sound segment
What is a minimal pair?
Words that are distinguished by a single phoneme
What is an allograph?
Two or more letter combinations that represent a single phoneme
What is a digraph?
Combination of two or more letters that represent a single sound
Example: ph, ey
What is an allophone?
Phonetic variation of a phoneme that does NOT produce a change in meaning
Example: pronouncing “pop” with a pop of air and without
Compare phonetics and phonology.
Phonetics: Study of the physical act of producing and perceiving sounds
Phonology: study of the systematic organization of sounds in language
What is a syllable?
Unit of speech used to construct words, syllables are made of phonemes
What is the onset, nucleus, and coda?
Onset and coda are consonants
Nucleus is the vowel
