Mindmap

Phonetics and Phonology

julieth montoya phonetics and phonology Spanisch

Inhalt der Mindmap

Unit 1: Phonetics
- the process involved in sound production
- phonetics vs phonology-the specific terms found in them
- Organs of speech-the parts of the local tract and their roles in speech
- Phonetic symbols-understand the International phonetic alphabet
- consonant
  - voicing- voiced and voiceless
  - places of articulation- place of contact where an obstruction occurs
  - manners of articulation-interaction of the speech organs
- vowel
  - tongue position-depends on the sound
  - lenght-feature of sound that varies
  - Nasality-production of sound using the nose
  - diphthongs-combination of two sounds
  - rounding-lips during articulation
Unit 2: phonology
- the functioning of sounds
- phonemes- the unit of speech that can make one word different from another.
  - phones-phonetic symbols in brackets,, allophones-a single phoneme
  - minimal pairs-words that vary for only a single sound
  - features-example (billabial, voiceless)
- the syllable-how a word is naturally divided when it is pronounced
  - clusters
  - constraints on syllable formation
  - Homorganic nasal rule
  - sonority rule
  - syllable perception
  - syllabic consonants
- word stress-where the stresses are distributed on the syllables of a word
  - word and stress
  - effects of stress on words
  - stress and opositions
  - weak forms
  - compunds
- intonation-melody of pitch changes in connected speech
  - what is intonation
  - pitch
  - the tone unit
  - intonation patterns
  - tone unit structure
  - functions of intonation
- connected speech-spoken language that is used in continuous sequence
  - intra-syllabic level
  - intermorphemic level
  - between words
  - linking r