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Introduction and Anatomy

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Phonetics   the study of the production and perception of speech sounfs  
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)   used to represent the sounds that make up words; NOT based on spelling  
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Phonetics focuses on:   the study of speech sounds, their acoustic and perceptual characteristics, and how they are produced  
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Phonology focuses on:   how speech sounds are combined and used in language  
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Roman Alphabet   think in letters, the same letter combination might make different sounds depending on the word, context  
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Grapheme   the printed letter (or letters) that represent one speech sound  
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Allographs   different letter sequences or patterns that represent the same sound  
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Diagraphs   pair of letters that represent one sound  
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Morpheme   smallest unit of language capable of carrying meaning  
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Phoneme   a speech sound unit that can affect meaning  
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Minimal Pair   two words that differ by one phoneme  
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Free morpheme   a morpheme that can stand alone and carry meaning  
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Bound morpheme   a morpheme that must be attached to another word to carry meaning; CANNOT stand alone  
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Syllable   a basic building block of language that can be composed of one vowel alone or a vowel sound combination with one or more consonants  
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Syllable onset   all consonants that precede a vowel  
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Rhyme components   nucleus and coda  
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Nuecleus   the vowel  
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Coda   all consonants that follow the nucleus  
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Word Stress (lexical stress)   the increased emphasis in the production of one syllable in a word  
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Stressed syllable has an increase in muscular force, resulting in a syllable with   longer in duration, higher in pitch, somewhat louder  
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Systems for speech production   respiratory, phonatory, articulatory  
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Components of Respiratory system   diaphragm, lungs, trachea  
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Component of Phonatory system   larynx  
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Components of Articulatory system   vocal tract: lips, tongue, teeth, jaw, hard palate, velum, pharynx  
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Phonation   some speech sounds are voiced and some are voiceless  
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Examples of voiced sounds   z, b, d, th (in "the")  
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Examples of voiceless sounds   s, t, p, th (in "tooth")  
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Vocal tract   pharynx, oral cavity, nasal cavity, articulators  
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Articulators   structures that move to create speech sounds  
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Subcomponents of Pharynx   nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx  
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Nasal cavity   responsible for nasal sounds  
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Tongue   primary articulator, lingual sounds  
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Velum   muscular structure posterior to the hard palate, velar sounds  
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Hard palate   bony structure posterior to alveolar ridge: palatal sounds  
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Alveolar ridge   bony ridge at the anterior portion of the hard palate: alveolar sounds  
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Teeth central incisors   central incisors: interdental, labiodental sounds  
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Teeth molars   help guide tongue in production of other speech sounds  
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Lips   bilabial sounds, rounded vs unrounded (bear vs wear)  
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Resonance   the vibratory properties of any vibrating object, including the vocal tract; as the articulators move, resonance changes  
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What is the reason why we perceive speech sounds as different from each other?   resonance  
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