Phonetics Ch. 1-4
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| What is phonetics? | The scientific study of speech sounds, their articulations, substance, and perception in order to understand and improve linguistic expression.
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| People who study speech sounds are called what? | Phoneticians
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| What are the major branches of phonetics? | Experimental, Articulatory, Acoustic, Perceptual, Applied
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| What are the Applied branches of phonetics? | Normative, Clinical, Linguistic (including Descriptive, Comparative, Dialectology, Pragmatic, Transcriptional)
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| What does IPA stand for? | International Phonetic Association
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| What is the definition of "phone"? | Any sound that can be produced by the human vocal tract.
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| What is a phoneme? | When a phone becomes a speech sound in a particular language; Sound with meaning; Part of language.
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| How do you know if a phone is a phoneme? | You must find a pair differing by one sound (a minimal pair)
ex. pat mat, rot cot, shop shot
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| What is an allophone? | First part of the word means "other"
Definition: variant form of a phoneme; part of the same sound family, but pronounced differently
ex. daughter-->it's not daugh-T-er, it's daugh-d-er
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| What is a morpheme? | Small unit of meaning.
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| The word "unwind" has what type of morphemes? | "un" = bound
"wind" = free
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| What is an allomorph? | Variant of morpheme; plural, past tense endings, possessives
ex. cats cooked cat's
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| What is it mean to say that speech is dynamic? | Sounds influence one another.
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| The coarticulatory influence one sound can have on another. | Assimilation
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| Sound changed by a following, unchanged sound. | Regressive/Backward Assimilation
ex. ink congress nine
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| What happens with Progressive/Forward Assimilation? | The first sound, without changing its identity, causes change in a following sound.
ex. cubs cups
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| When adjacent sounds change to become something different. | Reciprocal Assimilation
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