Phonetics Quiz 1

Manner of articulation

how the sound is produced

place of articulation

where the sound is produced

Dipthong

2 vowels in which the sound begins at the first vowel and moves toward the sound of the second vowel (snout=ou/boy=oy)

Virgules (//)

used for words

Brackets

representation of a word's production

Phones

if you change them, there is no change of meaning

Phonemes

Change it, change the meaning

Allophone

variation of a phoneme ("t" vs "tuh")

Homograph

a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning (Bow, bow)

Homophone

to, two

Citation-Form

Overly pronounced/formal

Phonotactic structure

Rules about how sounds are allowed to go together or not in a language (sk is ok, but not sd)

Consonant cluster

two or three contiguous consonants in the same syllable (sk in skip)

Coarticulation

letters/syllables share sounds

Syllabification

Breaking words down into their syllables (think: dictionary)

Maximal onset

to attach consonant phonemes to the beginning of the next syllable, instead of articulating them after a vowel.

Lexical stress

the degree of emphasis on individual syllables within words

Grammatical stress

stress reflects the word meaning and the syntactical category of the word (content vs content)