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terms for HEL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| dipthong | a combination of 2 vowel sounds in one syllable |
| allophone | a variant articulation of a phoneme |
| morpheme | the smallest meaningful unit in language; class of meaningful sequences that cannot be divided into smaller sequences |
| allomorph | a variant pronunciation of a morpheme |
| dialect | a variant of language that is used in a particular place or social group |
| diachronic | change through time |
| synchronic | a point in time without regard to historical change |
| 3 old english letters | thorn, eth, and aesc |
| stop | sound that stops the flow of language |
| phoneme | a sound that is capable of distinguishing one meaningful form from another. |
| affricate | a stop sound with a fricative release |
| alveolar | involving the gum ridge |
| alveopalatal | involving the gum ridge and hard palate |
| palatovelar | either palatal or velar |
| palatal | involving the hard palate |
| nasal | sound made through the airflow through the nose |
| monophthong | a single vowel with stable quality |
| fricative | a sound made by narrowing the breath channel to produce friction |
| liquid | sound produced without friction and can be continuously sounded |
| semi vowel | sound articulated like vowel but functioning like a consonant |
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