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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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