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Phsycolinguistics
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- 1PhonemeThe smallest unit of language
- 2Internationally recognized set of phonetic symbolsInternational Phonetic Alphabet
(IPA) - 3The areas of the mouth used when pronouncing a vowel soundFront and back
- 4The technical name for vocal cordsLarynx
- 5How is speech produced?By air flow from lungs that passes through the larynx
- 6True or false: Every phoneme occurs in every lauguageFalse, there are gaps often due to systematic effects of language design
- 7Smallest units of language that carry meaningMorphemes
- 8How are vowels produced?By movements of lips and tongue which change the size and shape of the vocal cavity
- 9Produced by various articulatory movements that obstruct air flow through the vocal tractConsonants
- 10Why do foreigners have the impression other languages are spoken too fast?They can't easily segment the speech stream into its component words
- 11Syllables with 2 or 3 consonants at their beginning are common in which language?English
- 12Name a morphemeAny word mentioned with one syllable
- 13Functional morphemesModify the meaning of the word and serve various grammatical purposes
- 14Function words are more likely to be____and____.1. shorter
2. unstressed - 15Carries the main semantic content of the sentenceContent morpheme
- 16Rules of syntaxPrinciples which determine how words can be constructed into sentences
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- Undergraduate Psychology (Psycholinguistics) Flashcards on Phsycolinguistics, created by Grace Feakes on 19/11/2013.
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