CSD 427 Quiz 1

Any speech sound in any language. symbol is written in square brackets eg) [p]

A "contrastive phone" or a basic sound unit that is capable of changing meaning in a language, written in slashes

A group or family of similar sounds; variants of a phoneme

Differ from

Allophones that occur in different positions or phonetics contexts and do not change meaning

If different allophone can occur in the same position or context, no change in meaning

one phonetic form is used for 2 or more different words
eg) [bat] for block, bat, bad, and black
homophones= adult

The loss of a phonemic contrast in one or more word positions
eg) ladder for both ladder and latter (use of flap)
eg) doe for toe and dough in a child's speech

Carry grammatical meaning (eg. plural or past tense); the markers are bound morphemes (cannot stand alone)

Used to "derive" one part of speech from another eg) a noun from an adjective
eg) electric (adj) + icity = electricity (noun)

The articulation of a sound is influenced by the sounds coming before and/ or after it in the "stream of speech"

- rapid production of speech
- conversational speech is produced more rapidly than the individual segments can be articulated

Articulatory effect is anticipated before the sound segment is produced
eg) swim: /w/ anticipated during the [s] = labialization; [m] anticipated during the [I] = nasalization

Anticipatory

Articulatory effect is retained after the sound egment is produced
eg) voicing of plural morphemes in English:
bag to bags: effect of voiced [g] carries over to [z]