Volcabulary

Question 1

Homorganic Sounds

Answer 1

Group of phonemes that share a point of articulation

Question 2

Phoneme

Answer 2

Minimal contrastive segmental unit/smallest unit of sound

Question 3

Allophone

Answer 3

Predictable variant of a phoneme created by the phonological environment

Question 4

Vowel

Answer 4

A human speech sound produced without obstruction at a particular point in the vocal tract. All vowels are voiced

Question 5

Complimentary Distribution

Answer 5

A pattern of distribution in which a sound occurs in only one place and no other because of the phonological environment

Question 6

Free Variation

Answer 6

A pattern of distribution in which more than one variety of a sound may occur in the same phonological environment

Question 7

Minimal Pair

Answer 7

A pair of words that differ by a single phoneme example (bit, bat, bet)

Question 8

Manner of Articulation

Answer 8

The degree of obstruction in the vocal tract that creates a consonant sound

Question 9

Point of Articulation

Answer 9

The unmovable part of the vocal tract where the air is obstructed when making a human speech sounds

Question 10

Voiced Sounds

Answer 10

A human speech sound produced with vibration of the vocal cords

Question 11

Voiceless Sounds

Answer 11

A human speech sound produced without vibration of the vocal cords

Question 12

Articulatory Properties

Answer 12

Manner of articulation, point of articulation, voiced or voiceless

Question 13

Consonant

Answer 13

A human speech sound produced by a partial or total obstruction of air in the vocal tract

Question 14

Natural Class of Sounds

Answer 14

Groups of phonemes that share a manner of articulation.

Question 15

Morphology

Answer 15

the study of form and meaning (word form)

Question 16

Morpheme

Answer 16

Minimal unit of meaning, are characterized by their relationship to each other

Question 17

Allomorph

Answer 17

Predictable variant of a morpheme

Question 18

Free morpheme

Answer 18

stand alone as a word

Question 19

Root morpheme

Answer 19

is also free example “confer” :prefer”

Question 20

Bound morpheme

Answer 20

must append to a free morpheme They either inflectional (grammatical) or derivational(Semantic)

Question 21

Inflectional morphemes

Answer 21

add grammatical meaning but do not alter its semantics meaning or part of speech

Question 22

Derivational morphemes

Answer 22

do alter the semantic meaning or part of speech of the free morpheme
Makes a new word by changing the meaning or part of speech of the free morpheme to which they attach. example (ly) frequently

Question 23

8 inflectional morphemes

Answer 23

Nouns 
-plural(s) (cats)
-possessive ('s) (cat's)
Verbs
-third person singular (s) (proves)
-pasted tense (ed) (proved)
-past participle (en) (proven)
-progressive aspect (ing) (proving)
Adjectives
-comparative (er) (taller)
-superlative (est) (tallest)