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Phonology
study of sounds, patterns, and rules for combining sounds in sentences
phonetics
study of speech sounds, the written symbols used to represent their
productions
Phone
a single speech sound by a single symbol in the phonetic system
Phoneme
unit of sound that carry’s meaning, many productions. don’t change meaning
Morpheme:
unit that carry meaning or the smallest unit of language
carrying semantic interpretation
Free morphemes:
morpheme that can stand alone cannot be broken down
Bound morphemes:
suffixes or prefixes that attach to a free morpheme to alter meaning
Minimal Pairs:
Morphemes that are similar, except one sound “Tea” supposed to say “key”
Allophone:
alternate form of a phoneme within language. They do not change the meaning Example: “sit” [sɪt] vs voiced “rose” [roʊz]
Allographs
Different letters and combinations
to represent the same phonemes
gh-laugh
Free Variation:
When allophones can be swapped in certain phonetic
contexts and not affect the word
bah-bat
When allophones can be swapped in certain phonetic
contexts and not affect the word
free variation
Complementary Distribution:
Allophones that cannot be swapped in certain contexts.
[tʰ] occurs in stressed syllables, as in “top” [tʰɑp].
[ɾ] occurs between vowels when the /t/ is in an unstressed syllable, like in “butter” [ˈbʌɾər]
Narrow Phonetic Transcription:
the aspirated and unreleased allophonic variations, errors
phonemic transcription
recording of speech sound into phonemic symbols
Phonetic Transcription:
Recording of speech sounds using symbols of the (IPA) and diacritic markers.
Brackets:
[ ].
diacritics
IPA symbols
Virgules:
/ /
substitution
t/k t/s
omission
omission refers to the absence or failure to produce a speech sound
-/k -/bl for uuu
blend is considered
1 unit consonant cluster that stick together.
Consonants:
Phonemes produced by some narrowing or closing
of the vocal tract.
Prevocalic:
“Dog” – The /d/ sound is prevocalic because it appears before the vowel “o.”
consonant blend occurring before a vowel