Phonetics Flashcards
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What does RP stand for?
British Recevied Pronunciation
What is slanting lines?
Phonemes are places within them
/ …/
How is length marked in transcription?
It is marked by a colon.
/:/
When is […] used?
When we specify variants of phonemes or refer to sounds in general.
What is the definition of phonetics?
Is the part of linguistics that studies the sound system of language. Here we are only concerned with the spoken message.
How is a message transferred from speaker to listener?
Speaker
(Brain)—nerves—(vocal organs)^^air^^
Listener
(Ear)—nerves–(brain)
Which are the speech organs?
The lungs,
the vocal cords,
the tongue,
the lips and
the cavities (hålrummen).
How I sound produced?
With an outgoing airstream, but it is only by interference with the stream of air that audible sound is produced.
Which are the nine voiceless sound?
P
T
K
F
θ
S
ʃTʃ
H
What is a vowel?
If the vocal cords vibrate and there is no further interference the result is a vowel.
The difference in his vowels and consonants are produced?
Vowel is a voiced sound produced with a free passage of air through the upper speech organs.
If the he passage through the upper speech organs is constructed or closed the result is a consonant.
What is a syllable?
Each vowel forms the center of a syllable. The syllable is the carrier’s of stress and the stress marker is placed before the stressed syllable.
13 speech organs?
- Nasal cavity
- Lips
- Teeth
- Teeth ridge
- Hard palate
- Soft palate
- Uvula
- Tips of tongue
- Blade of tongue
- Front of tongue (back)
- Root of tongue
- Pharynx (svalg)
- Larynx (struphuvud)
How are different vowels produced?
By changing the size and shape of the cavities above the larynx.
1)
Of the passage to the nose is open the result is a nasal vowel.
2)
If the velum closes it he passage to the nose we produce an oral vowel.
3)
When the front off the tongue is raised towards the palate the realist is a front vowel.
4)
When the back of the tongue is raised towards the velum we get at back vowel.
5)
[i] is a close vowel
6)
[a] is an open vowel
What is acoustic phonetics?
Investigates physical properties of sounds
What is articulatory phonetics?
Investigates how sounds are made biologically.
What is the goal of transcription?
One symbol= on sound
What are semi-vowels?
Like vowels but articulation is momentary.
Tre way of airflow in consonants?
Stopped [p] - pill
Impeded [s] - sit
Diverted [m] - mat
What is a phoneme?
An individual building block of the sound system of a language.
Tree features of consonants?
Voicing
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
The schwa
/ə/
Sounds like “ör”
Ex:
Butter
Writer
What’s are cardinal vowels?
The colors the vowels of different languages a system of reference points, so called cardinal vowels was set up. Initially eight vowels were plotted on a diagram representing the oral cavity or mouth.
What doa the diagram for the weight cardinal vowels represent?
The left side represents the front of the mouth, the right the back.
The top and bottom correspond to high and low tongue positions.
Four vertical levels:
Close
Half close
Half open
Open
