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Sp Phonetics Final
UW-RF spanish phonetics final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is consonant neutralization? | The name for the loss of contrast between two phonemes. Consonant neutralization in Spanish always takes place in the syllable-final position, that is, either before another consonant or a pause. |
| What is regressive assimilation? | The phonological process in which the following sound influences the preceding sound, causing it to take on some of its characteristics. Foe example, the bilabial stop [b] in enviar causes the preceding /n/ to be realized as a bilabial nasal, [m]. |
| What is progressive assimilation? | The phonological process in which the preceding sound influences the second or following sound, causing it to take on some of its characteristics, such as the bilabial nasal [m] in hombre causing the /b/ to be realized as a stop. |
| What is mutual assimilation? | Adjacent sounds exercise an influence on each other in both directions: progressively and regressively, such as a word enviar where the nasal is realized as bilabial [m] and the following bilabial /b/ is realized as a stop. |
| What is hyper-correction? | A misguided effort made by educated speakers to make their speech "correct" by replacing seemingly incorrect forms with those deemed to be correct, such as the pronunciation of labio-dental [v] in Spanish in a word like viene. |
| What is lleísmo? | Speakers in yeísta areas learn this in school. They occasionally use palatal [l] when they are on their best behavior. The palatal [l] just disappears when they are conversing normally. |
| What is yeísmo? | Is more widely used by younger speakers. For uneducated and marginally educated speakers of Spanish, they use y for ll, for example, llegar is yegar. |
| What is zeísmo? | Using the voiced palatal groove fricative [z] instead of the palatal slit fricative [y]. Many female speakers do this. |
| What is sibilants? | All groove fricatives since the resultant sound is a type of hissing or whistling. |
| What is seseo? | The speech mode heard in many parts of Spain, particularly Andalusia, and throughout all of Spanish America, in which the phoneme /theta/ is absent, being replaced by the /s/ |
| What is distinción? | The phonemice contrast in Castilian Spanish between /s/ and /theta/ as in casa-caza, sometimes mistakenly referred to as ceceo, in which both words are said with /theta/ |
| What is ceceo? | Lisping, The speech mode heard in Andalusian Spanish in which /s/ and /theta/ fail to contrast, the latter sound usually replacing the former. |
| What is homorganic? | The term used to describe two or more sounds articulated at the same point of articulatioin, sucha s the bilabial [m] and [b]. |
| What is plus junction? | A boundary feature in English which prevents certain phonologial processes from taking place. For example, English, does not assimilate nasals, tan coat, or green grass and often not even at morpheme boundaries as in income or ingrown. |
| What is "dark" l? | The [l] heard in syllable-final position in English articulated with little or no contrast between the tongue and upper articulators. The middle of the tongue dorsum is lowered or concave and the very rear of the dorsum is raised toward the velum. Ex: mal |
| What is defective distribution? | The distribution of a phoneme that does not occur in certain expected enviornments like in /r/ in spanish which never occurs at the beginning of a word. |
| What is linking? | Refers to the situation in which the last consonant of a word preceding a word beginning with a vowel combines with the vowel to start the next syllable, los alumnos. |
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