Phonetics Ch. 1-4 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What is phonetics? | The scientific study of speech sounds, their articulations, substance, and perception in order to understand and improve linguistic expression. |
| People who study speech sounds are called what? | Phoneticians |
| What are the major branches of phonetics? | Experimental, Articulatory, Acoustic, Perceptual, Applied |
| What are the Applied branches of phonetics? | Normative, Clinical, Linguistic (including Descriptive, Comparative, Dialectology, Pragmatic, Transcriptional) |
| What does IPA stand for? | International Phonetic Association |
| What is the definition of "phone"? | Any sound that can be produced by the human vocal tract. |
| What is a phoneme? | When a phone becomes a speech sound in a particular language; Sound with meaning; Part of language. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| What is a morpheme? | Small unit of meaning. |
| The word "unwind" has what type of morphemes? | "un" = bound "wind" = free |
| What is an allomorph? | Variant of morpheme; plural, past tense endings, possessives ex. cats cooked cat's |
| What is it mean to say that speech is dynamic? | Sounds influence one another. |
| The coarticulatory influence one sound can have on another. | Assimilation |
| Sound changed by a following, unchanged sound. | Regressive/Backward Assimilation ex. ink congress nine |
| What happens with Progressive/Forward Assimilation? | The first sound, without changing its identity, causes change in a following sound. ex. cubs cups |
| When adjacent sounds change to become something different. | Reciprocal Assimilation |
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