Wk4 iNtRo tO pHonEtIcS Flashcards

1
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Movements of the tongue, lips, and other speech organs is called…?

A

articulations

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2
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What is acoustic phonetics compared to auditory phonetics?

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Physical nature of the speech signal is called acoustic phonetics. Auditory phonetics is how the ear receives the speech signal.

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3
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A sound which is made with lips is called..?[m]

A

Bilabial

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4
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A sound which is sound with air escaping from the nose is called…?[m]

A

nasal

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5
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A sound which is said with voice is called…?[m]

A

voiced

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6
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A sound which is made with the tongue-tip against the teeth-ridge is called…?[t]

A

Alveolar

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7
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A sound which has air escaping not from the nose but from the mouth is called…?[t]

A

Oral

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8
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A sound which is said without voice is called…?[t]

A

voiceless

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9
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What do symbols between square brackets [ ] indicate?

A

sounds and are called phonetic symbols – [p], [b], [t], [d], and so on

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10
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What does it mean when letters are shown in angled brackets, or written in normal font m

A

letters of ordinary spelling, orthographic

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11
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Sounds are also called…?

A

segments

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12
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Segments are made up of….

A

consonants and vowels

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13
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how many segments in the word man?

A

3 [m], [æ] and [n].

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if we take the word man [mæn], and replace the first sound by [p], we get a new word pan [pæn].
Two words of this kind distinguished by a single sound are called a …..

A

minimal pair

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ban [bæn], tan [tæn], ran [ræn], etc.

A set of words distinguished in this way is called…

A

a minimal set

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16
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mean [miːn], moan [məʊn], mine [maɪn], moon [muːn],

A set of words distinguished in this way is called…

A

a minimal set

17
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man [mæn], mat [mæt], mad [mæd].

A set of words distinguished in this way is called…

A

a minimal set

18
Q

What is a phoneme?

A

the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another word in a language. eg bat, rat, sat

19
Q

What is it called when a letter is pronounced differently in different words eg.
t sounds in the words “hit,” “tip,” and “little”

A

Allophone

20
Q

What’s it called when people say ‘water’ differently?

A

allophonic variation

21
Q

What does IPA stand for?

A

International Phonetic Alphabet/Association

22
Q

What are these little marks on a symbol called [ẽ d̥]. ?

A

diacritics

23
Q

A phonetic transcription can…..

A

indicate minute details of the articulation of any particular sound

24
Q

A phonemic transcription can…

A

not tell us precisely what the realisations of the phoneme are eg. we would just see /t/ instead of [tʰiː].

25
Q

Why bother with a phonemic translation?

A

it eliminates unnecessary detail and retains only the information essential to meaning.

26
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Suggested reading?

A

Chapter 5: Sound segments pp. 189–195

Fromkin. V, Rodman, R. and Hyams, N. (2013). An Introduction to Language