Linguistics Flashcards

Question	Answer
Phonology	the way in which speech sounds are formed
Phonetic Transcription	marks minute distinctions in sound and places symbols in square brackets
Alveolar	a speech sound that is made with the tip of the tongue touching the roof of the mouth near the front teeth
Phonemes	the smallest unit of sound that affects the meaning
Pitch	determines the context or meaning of words or a series of words
stress	can modify the meaning or words or sentences
Phonographemics	The study of letters and letter combinations
Dipthong	a complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and changes to another vowel in the same syllable /oi/
Affricative	a complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative /ch/ or /j/
fricatives	a consonant characterized by frictional passage of the expired breath through a narrowing in the vocal tract /p/, /t/ or /k/
plosives	a stop or occlusive produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract /p/, /t/, /k/

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	Created by Kathy Schale about 9 years ago