Auditory Phonetics and Phonology Lecture

These flashcards cover key terms and concepts related to auditory phonetics and phonology as outlined in the lecture.

Phonetics

The study of speech sounds in all human languages.

Auditory Phonetics

The branch of phonetics that studies how speech sounds are perceived.

Articulatory Phonetics

The study of how speech sounds are produced.

Acoustic Phonetics

The study of the physical aspects of speech sounds.

Syllable

A multi-segmental unit that must contain one vowel and can have consonants.

Maximum Onset Principle (MOP)

A rule that states a consonant between two syllables should go into the onset position of the second syllable.

Stress

A relative prominence given to certain syllables in words, manifested by loudness, pitch, and duration.

Phoneme

An abstract contrastive phonological unit whose phonetic realizations are predictable.

Distinctive Feature

A phonetic property of a phoneme that accounts for its ability to contrast meanings of words.

Phonotactics

The rules that define permissible sequences of phonemes and their arrangements within syllables.

Insertion Rule

A phonological process that involves adding one or more phones in a word.

Deletion Rule

A phonological process that removes unstressed sounds from words.

Assimilation Rule

A phonological process that changes features of segments to make them more similar.

Dissimilation Rule

A phonological process that changes feature values of segments to make them less similar.

Minimal Pair

Two words that differ by only one sound segment in the same position.

Allophone

A predictable phonetic realization of a phoneme.

Feature Matrix

A tool used to identify a phonemic unit based on distinctive features.