Glossary Of Linguistic & Phonological Terms
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HOMOPHONE:
When different words sound exactly alike. (when they have the same phoneme in the same consecutive order)
HOMOGRAPHS:
Words spelled alike but pronounced differently.
COGNATE WORDS:
Words derive from the same word in an ancestral Language.
DIALECTAL VARIANTS:
There are allophones of a phoneme used only in certain speech communities.
PICTORIAL:
First written words were crude pictures of objects that represented their meanings and had no connection with their spoken forms. (Graphic symbols) (sings word-writing)
SYLLABIC WRINTING:
Type of writing in which there was a symbol for each syllable.
ALPHABETIC WRITING:
Sets of letters, usually arranged in a fixed order, each of which represents one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels
SILENT LETTERS:
Letters that have special values determined by the overall spelling pattern.
EYE DIALECT:
Phonetic spelling. (Phonetic spelling, special effects)
ARTICULATION:
The movements of the tongue.
CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION:
Sounds merge into each other, forming a continuous stream. Separate sounds, ones after another. Phoneticians and linguists call this phenomenon Categorical Perception.
PHONEME:
Speech sounds as they are perceived.
ALLOPHONE:
Speech sounds as they are articulated.
*POSITIONAL ALLOPHONES:
Those that occur in particular phonetics environments.
DIALECTAL ALLOPHONES:
Allophones of a phoneme used only in certain speech communities.
May occur only in certain positions of a word.
MINIMAL PAIR CONTRAST:
It consist of finding two separate words in the language that sound almost, but not completely identical.
INTERVOCALIC POSITION:
When consonants occur in medial position between vowels.
ASPIRATION:
The empty space represents an extra puff of air made by all native speakers of English when they pronounce the words.
ASSIMILATION:
Sounds in combination tend to influence each other, becoming more alike.
VOWEL LENGTHENING:
A vowel sound that happens upon the loss of a following consonant, usually in the syllable coda.
CONSONANT CLUSTER:
When two or more consonants are combined in a syllable.
PHONETIC FEATURE:
A label for some movement or position of the speech organs.
VOICING:
Refers to the activity of the vocal chords.
PLACE OF ARTICULATION:
Refers to the place in the vocal tract where there is the greatest degree of obstruction.
MANNER OF ARTICULATION:
Refers to the degree of air obstruction and the way in which the breath stream is released, from sudden to gradual.
CONSONANTS
STOPS:
As the name implies, air is briefly stopped
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