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Undergraduate 2
10/24/2012

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assimilation
Definition
process whereby phonemes take on the phonetic character of neighboring sounds
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regressive assimilation
Definition
identify of a phoneme is modified due to a phoneme following it a<--b (man) R-L
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progressive assimilation
Definition
L-R, phoneme before affects the phoneme after a-->b
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elision
Definition

deletion

ex. friendship

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epenthesis
Definition

addition

ex. mignone

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developmental epenthesis
Definition

addition of schwa due to inability to produce certain consonant clusters

ex. break

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metathesis
Definition

transposition of sounds in a word

ex. cinnamon

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vowel reduction
Definition

full form of a vowel becomes more like the mid-central vowel

/kaen/ --> /k(schwa)n/

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suprasegmental aspects of speech
Definition
stress, timing, and intonation
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sentence (contrastive) stress
Definition
words that receive primary stress in sentence usually context/function words
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lexical stress
Definition

n vs. v stress

ex. contract (n) vs. contract (v)

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intonation
Definition
modification of voice pitch
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falling intonational
Definition
5 W's, conclusion of a sentence
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rising intonation
Definition
questions other than 5W's, lists
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tempo
Definition
time
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grapheme
Definition

individual printed letter in english roman alphabet

ex. a e i o u

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phoneme
Definition

individual sounds in phonetic alphabet

ex. ae, E, schwar, S, tf

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digraph
Definition

two different consecutive graphemes in a word that represent a single word

ex. tooth

(oo) (th)

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morpheme
Definition
smallest unit of language capable of carrying meaning
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minimal pairs/minimal contrasts
Definition

words that vary by only one phoneme

ex. look, book

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resonance
Definition
Vibratory properties of any sound producing body
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Intonation
Definition
Modification of voice pitch associated with varying utterance types or the speakers mood
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pragmatics
Definition
language use
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semantics
Definition
Lexicon, vocabulary
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word class
Definition
part of speech (n,v,adj)
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sonorant peak
Definition
The emphasis given the nuclear syllable in an intonational phrase; greatest pitch changes, longer durration, louder
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cognates
Definition
Phonemes that differ only in voicing
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syntax
Definition
word order
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morphology
Definition
The study of word meaning and grammatical rules
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allophones
Definition
Variant pronunciations of a particular phoneme
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