Phonetics and Phonology Flashcards
Phonetics and Phonology
is the speech sound
Elision
Elision is the removal of a sound that often connects speech to make it sound more eloquent and concise
Assimilation
The process of which sounds become adaptive to it’s neighboring sounds.
Insertion
The action of something being added into words to add a different meaning.
vowel reduction
vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word
prosodic Feature’s
features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech , such as pitch , intonation , tempo, stress and volume.
pitch
high and low volume of the things we say
intonation
patterns made and cultivated by a rising and falling pitch
Tempo
The pace and speed at which we speak
volume
the loudness and softness that we speak
Free Morpheme
meanings that can stand alone as a word
Bound Morphemes
words that have no meaning when they stand alone
How many Types of sentences
4
Declaratives
sentences that make statements
Imperatives
sentences that issue directives
