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TheaCastorena Phonetics English 31 cards

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  1. 1consonantsclosed sounds.
    air moving through vocal tract with constrictions.
  2. 2singletonb-a-t
  3. 3sequencest-o-ps
  4. 4vowelsopen sounds.
    air moving through open vocal tract.
  5. 5syllableunit of pronunciation
  6. 6'nucleus' consonantsm, n, and l
  7. 7nucleusvowel sounds in a syllable
  8. 8peakaka nucleus
    vowels - strongest acoustic energy
    [vowel = peak/nucleus]
  9. 9prevocalic consonantsconsonants BEFORE vowel
  10. 10postvocalic consonantsconsonants AFTER vowel
  11. 11intervocalicconsonants BETWEEN vowels
    w-a-G-o-n
  12. 12onsetsprevocalic consonants
  13. 13codapostvocalic consonants
  14. 14T/F Every syllable has a vowel.True
  15. 15T/F Every syllable has a coda.False
    i.e. 'day'
  16. 16T/F Every syllable has an onset.False
    i.e. 'early'
  17. 17rimesyllable components
    [rime of syllable = vowel + coda]
  18. 18syllable treesyllable tree
  19. 19open syllablesany syllable that ends with a vowel sound [no coda present]
    I/eye=V; me=CV; know=CV
  20. 20closed syllablesany syllable ending with a consonant sound/s [codas present]
    I'm=VC; meat=CVC; nose=CVC
  21. 21simple syllablea syllable that contains NO consonant or ONLY singleton consonants.
    eye=V; my=CV; I'm=VC; mine=CVC
  22. 22complex syllablea syllable that contains at least ONE sequence.
    ask=VCC; spy=CCV; spice=CCVC; sprint=CCCVCC
  23. 23phonespeech sound
  24. 24phonemewhen a phone is used to differentiate meaning in words
  25. 25minimal pairpair of words that differs by one sound.
    [k]ey-[p]ea; [t]op-[st]op
  26. 26allophone[i.e. allophone variation]
    variant pronunciations of a particular phoneme.
    "t" - two, stew, it, better, button, and baton. (all pronounced differently)
  27. 27phonotactic constraintsallowable combos of sounds
    1) s+[k,p,t] = OK
    s+[b,d,g] = no-no
    2) pl, bl, cl, and gl = OK
    tl, dl = no-no
    3) ng = ONLY in intervocalic and postvocalic
  28. 28phoneticsarea that focuses on how speech sounds are produced
  29. 29articulatory phoneticsbranch of phonetics that examines the production features of speech sounds and categorizes them according to specific parameters in effort to describe how sounds are formed
  30. 30articulationthe actions of the speech organs in the production of speech sounds.
  31. 31speech organslips
    teeth
    tongue
    jaw

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