Details Title: AIC linguistics midterm Description: revised flashcards Total Flash Cards: 13 Created: 04/06/2009 17:40:57		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Education Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Define Consonant Definition Sound that is produced with a clear and definite obstruction of air as it  passed through the vocal track. Term Define Vowel Definition No obstruction of air.  Differentiated by the shape or oral stucture. Term Grapheme Definition Letters or letters representing a phoneme. Term Phonology Definition The study of how laguage uses single sounds.  Combining phonemes into words. Term Phonetics Definition The study of speech sound in a language. Term Morphology Definition Study of how a language combines its most basic elements of meaning/function to make words. Term Orthography Definition The spelling system of a language. Term Syntax Definition Study of how words combine into larger units of langage.   Making sentence Term Semantics Definition Study of the meaning of words and comprehension of larger units of language.   vocabulary Term Phonemic Awareness Definition Ability to pick out and manipulate sounds in spoken words. Term Phonological Awareness Definition recognizing differences of sounds in words and sentences. Term Vowel nasalization Definition When a vowl is spoken before a nasal consonant it is nasalized, the nasal phoneme (/m/,/n/) become hard to hear by the vowel Term Coarticulation Definition one sound colors another. seperate letters make one sound but together can sound different ie. had,hand