CSDS 101: Dynamics of Connected Speech Quiz

What is progressive assimilation?

a result of sounds that occur earlier in a word impacting the production of later occurring phonemes-occurs left to right

Example of progressive assimilation

dogs [dɑgz]

What is regressive assimilation?

a result of sounds the occur later in a word impacting the production of earlier occurring phonemes

Example of regressive assimilation

bank [baŋk]

What is elision?

the omission of a typically unstressed consonant, vowel, or syllable

Example of elision

veteran [vɛtrɪn] instead of [vɛtɚɪn]

What is intrusion?

the addition of new phonemes

Example of intrusion

dance [dænᵗs]

What is lengthening and what diacritical marker is used for it?

Consonants can lengthen as the result of their position in a syllable word or phrase [:]

What is voicing and what diacritical marker is used for it?

When a voiceless phoneme becomes voiced [  ̬  ]

What is devoicing and what diacritical marker is used for it?

When a voiced phoneme becomes voiceless [  ̥ ]

What are syllabics and what diacritical markers are used for them?

Consonants with vowel like qualities [  ̩ ]

Define coarticulation

Minor changes in phoneme production, occurs as a result of a fast rate of speech, allophonic variations