PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY Flashcards
1
Q
Much more than just a linguistic message, it incorporates
interlocking systems of meaning conveying subtle distinctions of attitude, personal and social
identity, emotional and physical state, and more; it is produced and
perceived with great rapidity and accuracy, even in the face of severe distortion
A
speech
2
Q
people hear a foreign
language, not in terms of its different phonetic reality, but in terms of the basic sounds of their
own language
A
a well-known phenomenon known as perceptual assimilation
3
Q
a unit of sound serving to contrast word
meanings in a particular language.
A
phoneme
