Flashcards in Midterm Deck (27)
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What is phonetics?
The study of speech sounds- how they are articulated/produced, and what are their acoustic qualities
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Applied Phonetics
practical application of phonetic knowledge
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Normative
Good or acceptable speech
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Clinical
using phonetic knowledge to remediate disordered speech
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Linguistic
Analysis of the sounds of language
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Phone
Any sound a human can produce
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Phoneme
A speech sound in a particular language
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Minimal Pair test
Only one phoneme is changed- ex: bat and pat
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Allophone
Variation in a phoneme
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Orthography
Spelling, written form
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Morpheme
Smallest meaningful unit of language
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Dialect
Variation in language
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Register
Style of speech adjusted for situation/audience
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Idiolect
Your individual dialect
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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
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What is "MVP"
Manner of Production, Voicing status, Place of articulation
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What is the MVP of "m"
voiced bilabial nasal
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What is the MVP of "n"
voiced alveolar nasal
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What is the MVP of "ng"
voiced velar nasal
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What is the MVP of "p"
voiceless bilabial stop
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What is the MVP of "t"
voiceless alveolar stop
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What is the MVP of "k"
voiceless velar stop
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What is the MVP of "b"
voiced bilabial stop
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What is the MVP of "d"
voiced alveolar stop
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What is the MVP of "g"
voiced velar stop
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What is the MVP of "l"
voiced alveolar liquid
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