Question | Answer |
Phonetics | is concerned with how sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived |
phonology | is concerned with how sounds function in relation to eachother in a language |
segmentals | are individual speech sounds and phonemes, manner sounds, place sounds, voicing sounds |
suprasegmentals | a suprasegmental is a vocal effect that extends over more than one sound segment in an utterance: pitch, stress or juncture pattern. |
phoneme | is a basic unit of a language's phonology : the smallest conctrastive unit which may bring about a change of meaning. |
an allophone | a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language |
phonetics | Acoustics, Auditory, Articulatory |
What is the difference between standard GenAm and RP? | Rp uses more diphtongization |
What kind of intonation do question tags have? | rising and falling |
How would you best define a vowel sound? | A sound made by positioning the tongue and lips |
fortis articulations | ( consonats)= produced with relatively great amount of muscular energy....the voiceless stops are normally fortis articulations. |
Coelescence Don`t you /dəʊnt ju/ > / dəʊntʃu/ Would you /wʊd ju/ > /wʊdʒu/ | the alveolar plosives /t/ and /d/ may merge with a following palatal approximant /j/ to become post-alveolar affricates (/t ʃ/ and /dʒ/ respectively) |
regressive assimilation | Is she / ɪz ʃi/ > /ɪʒ ʃi Dress shop /dres ʃɒp/ > /dreʃ ʃɒp/ |
Is she / ɪz ʃi/ > /ɪʒ ʃi Dress shop /dres ʃɒp/ > /dreʃ ʃɒp/ | The alveolar fricatives /s z/ may become post-alveolar fricatives without altering their voicing when followed by a palatal approximant (/j/) or a post-alveolar fricative (/ʃ ʒ/). thus /s/ may become / ʃ/ and /z/ may become /ʒ/. |
Alveolar stop regressive place assimilation | Front garden /frʌnt gɑ:dn/ > /frʌŋk gɑ:dn/ Couldn`t be /kʊdnt bi/ > /kʊbmp bi/ |
Alveolar fricative regressive place assimilation | Is she / ɪz ʃi/ > /ɪʒ ʃi Dress shop /dres ʃɒp/ > /dreʃ ʃɒp/ |
Alveolar syllabic nasal progressive place assimilation | Open /əʊpən/ > /əʊpn/ > / əʊpm/ Bacon /beɪkən/ > /beɪkn/ > /beɪkŋ/ |
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