Wk4 iNtRo tO pHonEtIcS Flashcards
Movements of the tongue, lips, and other speech organs is called…?
articulations
What is acoustic phonetics compared to auditory phonetics?
Physical nature of the speech signal is called acoustic phonetics. Auditory phonetics is how the ear receives the speech signal.
A sound which is made with lips is called..?[m]
Bilabial
A sound which is sound with air escaping from the nose is called…?[m]
nasal
A sound which is said with voice is called…?[m]
voiced
A sound which is made with the tongue-tip against the teeth-ridge is called…?[t]
Alveolar
A sound which has air escaping not from the nose but from the mouth is called…?[t]
Oral
A sound which is said without voice is called…?[t]
voiceless
What do symbols between square brackets [ ] indicate?
sounds and are called phonetic symbols – [p], [b], [t], [d], and so on
What does it mean when letters are shown in angled brackets, or written in normal font m
letters of ordinary spelling, orthographic
Sounds are also called…?
segments
Segments are made up of….
consonants and vowels
how many segments in the word man?
3 [m], [æ] and [n].
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 …..
minimal pair
ban [bæn], tan [tæn], ran [ræn], etc.
A set of words distinguished in this way is called…
a minimal set
mean [miːn], moan [məʊn], mine [maɪn], moon [muːn],
A set of words distinguished in this way is called…
a minimal set
man [mæn], mat [mæt], mad [mæd].
A set of words distinguished in this way is called…
a minimal set
What is a phoneme?
the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another word in a language. eg bat, rat, sat
What is it called when a letter is pronounced differently in different words eg.
t sounds in the words “hit,” “tip,” and “little”
Allophone
What’s it called when people say ‘water’ differently?
allophonic variation
What does IPA stand for?
International Phonetic Alphabet/Association
What are these little marks on a symbol called [ẽ d̥]. ?
diacritics
A phonetic transcription can…..
indicate minute details of the articulation of any particular sound
A phonemic transcription can…
not tell us precisely what the realisations of the phoneme are eg. we would just see /t/ instead of [tʰiː].
