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Phonetice vocab 1
Phonetics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Orthography | the study of spelling |
| grapheme | a printed letter |
| phoetic alphabet | separate grapheme for each sound |
| allograph | a grapheme or a sequence of graphemes that represents the same sound |
| digraph | pairs of graphemes that represent a speech sound |
| morpheme | smallest unit of LANGUAGE that carries meaning |
| IPA | International Phonetic Alphabet |
| Phoneme | speech sound |
| Minimal Pairs | words that vary by only one phoneme ( kiss and kick) |
| Distinctive features | smaller units that distinguish one phoneme from another |
| natural class | a group of phonemes that share several features |
| allophone | members of the phoneme family |
| Systematic Phonemic transcription | Broad transcription |
| Systematic Allophonic transcription | Narrow Transcription |
| Impressionistic Transcription | Narrow transcription procedure |