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What position is the vocal tract in when producing vowels

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Open

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What position is the vocal tract in when producing consonants

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Obstruction OR constriction

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How to classify consonants

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  1. voicing
  2. place of articulation
  3. manner of articulation
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How to classify vowels

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  1. Height
  2. Articulation
  3. Roundness
  4. Tenseness
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What are the two types of transcription

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  1. Phonemic notation
  2. Phonetic Notation
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What type of transcription uses square brackets?

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Phonetic Notation

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What type of transcription uses slashes?

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Phonemic notation

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Define phonemic notation

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Note only the raw sounds without detail of pronounciation

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Define phonetic notation

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Notes the details of pronounciation

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What does phonetic notation use to represent different factors of pronounciation?

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Diacritics

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T/F: Phonetic notation is broad transcription

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False; it is narrow

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T/F: Phonemic Notation is broad transcription

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True

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List the 6 common diacritic (phonological) processes in CDN English

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  1. aspiration
  2. unreleased stops
  3. tap
  4. nasalisation
  5. syllabic liquids and nasals
  6. dark-l (velarized l)
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What does the diacritic [ʰ] represent

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Aspiration

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What is missing from this phonetic transcription of the word “pie”: [paj]

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An aspiration diacritic after the “p” [pʰaj]

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What does the diacritic [ ̚] represent?

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An unreleased stop

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Define aspiration and when it occurs

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When a puff of air follows a consonant such as after the “p” in pit

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Define an unreleased stop and when it occurs

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When a stop consonant does not have a puff of air to indicate its ending such as the “t” in “cat”

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What is missing from this phonetic transcription of “wood” [wʊd]

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An unreleased stop diacritic after the d: [wʊd ̚ ]

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What is this diacritic called [ ̚]

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Corner or clip
No audible release

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What is this diacritic called [ʰ]

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Superscript h

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What does the IPA symbol [ɾ] represent

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A tap

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Define a tap and when it occurs

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A sound that replaces [d] or [t] when it is between syllables and the second syllable is UNSTRESSED

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What is wrong with the following phonetic transcription of the word “butter” [bʌttɹ̩]

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The “tt” should be replaced by a tap [ɾ]

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What is this diacritic called: [ɾ]
A tap
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What does the following diacritic represent: [ ̃]
Nasalization
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Define nasalization and when it occurs
Whenever the vowel is followed by a nasalized consonant
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What is missing from the following transcription of the word "sink": [sɪŋk]
A nasalization diacritic above the ɪ: [sɪ̃ŋk]
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What is this diacritic called: [ ̃]
Tilde
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Define syllabic liquids and nasals
Consonants that carry more sonorous properties than other consonants and are able to stand as the nucleus of syllables
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Define the conditions under which an "l" becomes a dark/velarized "l"
When an [l] is followed by a consonant or at the end of a word
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Define the conditions in which an [l] is light
When it is followed by a vowel
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T/F: the syllable following a tap is always unstressed
True!
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How is a syllabic consonant identified in phonetic transcription
With a line underneath ie [hɹ̩]
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What does a line underneath a nasal or liquid represent?
A consonant that takes the place of a vowel
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What can make up the nucleus of a syllable
A vowel (and following semi-vowel j/w) or sonorant
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What is before the nucleus of a syllable?
Onset
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What follows the nucleus of a syllable
A Coda
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Describe the characteristics and functions of a nucleus
-the core of a syllable; cannot be a syllable without a nucleus -mostly vowels -can be liquids or nasals
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Define the characteristics and functions of the onset of a syllable
-Precedes the nucleus to start the syllable -can be empty (Ø) -can be any consonant other than ŋ -can be a single consonant or a cluster
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Define the characteristics and functions of the coda of a syllable
-follows the nucleus to end the syllable -can be empty (Ø) -any consonant -can be single consonant, a cluster, and include affixes
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T/F: Any consonant can be an onset in Canadian English
False; ŋ is restricted from being an onset
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T/F: syllable trees are first broken down by Onset, Nucleus and Coda
False; it is first broken into the onset (O) and the rhyme (R)
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Define open syllables
Any syllable that does not have a coda
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Define stress at a phonetic level
The relative emphasis given to certain syllables in a word
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How is stress signaled?
By increased loudness and vowel length, full articulation of the vowel and changes in pitch
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Define secondary stress
A syllable that is stressed more than unstressed but not stressed as strongly as a syllable with primary stress
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Define minimal pair
Two words (with different meanings) whose pronounciation differ by exactly one sound ie: [tʰim] (team) versus [tʰin] (teen)
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Define distribution
A segment's position relative to other sounds (ie one of the environments for [t] is [s]__[j] so it can be found between [s] and [j] in English)
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Define complementary distribution
Sounds that cannot occur in the same phonetic environment Sound A will never occur in the same environment as sound B ie: [i] and [ĩ] or [p] and [pʰ]
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Define phoneme
One of the most basic phonological units of which all words in every language is produced (letters)
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Define allophone
Different pronounciations of the same phoneme, carrying the same meaning (ie /s/ in cats [z], cues [s] and churches [ez]
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Define alternation
When a word turns up in two or more forms and there are systemic sound-differences between the forms (ie the way the /n/ is pronounced in fan vs fan club)
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List the six most common phonological processes in English
1. assimiliation 2. dissimilation 3. insertion 4. deletion 5. lenition 6. fortition
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Define what assimilation does
Causes a sound (or gesture) to become more like a neighbouring sound (or gesture) with some respect to phonetic property Typically done to make sounds easier to articulate in conjunction with surrounding sounds ie: "uNbelievable" becoming "uMbelievable"
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Define dissimiliation
Two close or adjacent sounds to become less similar with some respect to some property by means of a change in one or both sounds ie: "sixths" becoming [sɪ́ksts]
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Define insertion
When a segment not present at the phonemic (written) level to be added to the phonetic form of a word ie: "hamster" becoming [hæ̃mpstəɹ]
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Define deletion
Eliminating a sound that was present at the phonemic level ie: "police" becoming [ˈpʰl̥is]
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Define fortition
When sounds become stronger ie: voiceless stops become aspirated when they occur at the beginning of a stressed syllable ([tɑp] becoming [tʰɑp])
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Define lenition
When sounds become weaker ie: flapping in order to make a word easier to say
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Define phonotactics
Permitted combinations of phonemes in the structure of a language
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What is the maximum of consonants permitted in an onset in English?
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What is the maximum of consonants permitted in a coda in English?
4

LING 2007 (8 decks)

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