Midterm Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is phonetics?
The study of speech sounds- how they are articulated/produced, and what are their acoustic qualities
Applied Phonetics
practical application of phonetic knowledge
Normative
Good or acceptable speech
Clinical
using phonetic knowledge to remediate disordered speech
Linguistic
Analysis of the sounds of language
Phone
Any sound a human can produce
Phoneme
A speech sound in a particular language
Minimal Pair test
Only one phoneme is changed- ex: bat and pat
Allophone
Variation in a phoneme
Orthography
Spelling, written form
Morpheme
Smallest meaningful unit of language
Dialect
Variation in language
Register
Style of speech adjusted for situation/audience
Idiolect
Your individual dialect
Ways to classify speech sounds
1) Vowels/consonants: obstruction in an oral/vocal tract
2) Voicing status: voiced, voiceless, vocal chords vibrating
3) Place of articulation
4) Manner of production: short/long sound, through nose, building up sound
5) Distinctive feature theory: bundles of features/characteristics
6) Syllabic/non-syllabic
7) Stressed/unstressed
8) Development order
9) Frequency of occurrence
What is “MVP”
Manner of Production, Voicing status, Place of articulation
What is the MVP of “m”
voiced bilabial nasal
What is the MVP of “n”
voiced alveolar nasal
What is the MVP of “ng”
voiced velar nasal
What is the MVP of “p”
voiceless bilabial stop
What is the MVP of “t”
voiceless alveolar stop
What is the MVP of “k”
voiceless velar stop
What is the MVP of “b”
voiced bilabial stop
What is the MVP of “d”
voiced alveolar stop
