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Study of language by examining the inventory and structure of sounds of human speech

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Phonetics

2
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Examines the physiological and acoustic properties and mechanisms behind how these sounds are produced and perceived by humans

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Speech science

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Studies the physiological mechanisms of speech production

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Articulatory phonetics

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Studies the physical properties of the sound waves during speech

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Acoustic phonetics

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Studies the physiological mechanisms and physical properties of sound waves associated with speech perception

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Auditory or perceptual phonetics

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What type of phonetics is the core of speech science?

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Acoustic phonetics

7
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What are the 3 parts of the speech chain model?

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Medium, Speaker, Listener

8
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What the sound waves travel through

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Medium

9
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Creates the vibration

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Speaker

10
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Person who picks up the vibration

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Listener

11
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Being able to produce and picking up your own speech

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Feedback loop

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Why is the feedback loop important?

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Able to correct yourself/self-modulation, monitor rate of speech, etc

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What can happen to you if the feedback loop is disrupted

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Could be bad for hearing, problematic for production of speech

14
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What are the 5 representations of speech?

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Resemblance, elucidation, amplification, arbitrary augmentation, reduction and loss

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What do linguistics use since they do not have access to the actual speech event?

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Representations of an observed event

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What are ways that we represent speech?

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Waveform, spectrogram, contact patterns, cineradiography, sagittal diagram, transcriptions

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Enable us to associate words or phrases with meaning

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Semantics

18
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Enable us to have common expectations of word order

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Syntax

19
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Internal or mental representation of an experience

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Thought

20
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What are some ways that we represent our thoughts?

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Images, actions, language, muscle imagery

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Proposes the way human beings think about their world is determined by language; language determines thinking

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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Accounts for contrasts in meaning caused by differences between meaningful sequences of sounds (cats vs. cat, vs cut) and intonation (Yes! vs Yes?)

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Morphological rules

23
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Account for the occurrence of particular sounds in the stream of speech

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Phonological rules

24
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Smallest linguistic segment that carries meaning

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Morpheme

25
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Family of sounds that functions in a language to signal a difference in meaning

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Phoneme

26
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Variants of the phoneme

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Allophone

27
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Any actual sound discussed without relation to its phonemic affiliation

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Phone

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True or false: “The notion that the way human beings think about their world is determined, in part, by the particular language that they speak is referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.”

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True

29
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True or false: “According to Noam Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistic theory, linguistic compentence refers to a speaker’s use of language while linguistic performance refers to a speaker’s knowledge of language.”

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False

30
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How the knowledge of a language is used in expressive behavior such as speech or writing

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Linguistic performance

31
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What one knows unconsciously about one’s own language; ability to understand and produce the language

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Linguistic competence