Quiz 2 Flashcards
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articulatory phonetics
the production features of phonemes, their categorization, and their arrangement according to specific details of their production
acoustic phonetics
the transmission properties of speech
auditory phonetics
how we perceive sounds
What are the jobs of the respiratory system?
- sustain life (breathing)
- give energy for speech
What is the function of the resonatory system?
it’s a filter for speech
vowels vs consonants
open//constricted
voiced/voiced or unvoiced
acoustically more intense/acoustically less intense
function as syllable nuclei/ only some function as nuclei
rhotics
r-sounds
plosives
stops
approximants
when articulators come close but less than fricatives (w,j,r,l)
sonority
loudness relative to that of other sounds with the same length, stress, and pitch
sonorants
sounds produced with continuous nonturbulent airflow (m,n,l,r,w,j)
obstruents
sounds characterized by a narrow constriction between the articulators
coarticulation
the concept that articulators are continually moving into a position for other segments over a stretch on speech (see vs sue)
assimilation
adaptive articulator changes through which one phoneme becomes similar, sometimes identical, to a neighboring sound segment (yellow vs lellow)
types of assimilation
contact or remote, progressive or regressive, total or partial
what is the form of a syllable
onset, nucleus, coda
What about a word influences the accuracy of speech production for children?
length
what part of words is typically learned first?
1st syllable shapes
