IPA
Description of a consonant sound that does not require the vocal track
What is "voiceless"?
Mental categories of actual speech sounds with contrastive meaning
What are "phonemes"?
The smallest unit of meaning in a word
What are "morphemes"?
The four subfields of anthropology
What are "biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archeology"?
Cultural beliefs about language, language variation, specific language varieties, and beliefs about the role of language in society
What are "language ideologies"?
Refers to where in the mouth consonant sounds are made
What is "place of articulation"?
All accepted pronunciations of a single phoneme
What are "allophones"?
All accepted pronunciations of a single morpheme
What are "allomorphs"?
The ideas that difference exists between cultures and no one culture is “correct”
What is "cultural relativism"?
Laughing, crying, and smiling are all examples of this concept
What are "gesture calls"?
The only two tense vowels in English
What are "[i] and [u]"?
A technique used to find the phonemes of a language
What are "minimal pairs"?
Morphemes that can stand on their own and are the foundations of words
What are "free bases"?
An approach that focuses on the whole range of human experiences across subfields.
What is "holism"?
A field of study that focuses on finding meaning or systems of classification through the vocabulary of a language
What is "ethnosemantics"?
Describe [dʒ] in terms of manner and place of articulation
What is "voiced palatal affricate"?
True or False:
/p/ and /ph/ are both phonemes in English
What is "false"?
The affix in the word "cats"
What is a "suffix"?
The idea that certain cultures are more correct/ superior than others
What is "ethnocentrism"?
The three cheremes found in silent languages
What are "dez, tab, and sig"?
Convert this phrase into IPA:
Shopping list
What is "[ʃɑpin lɪst]"?
The number of phonemes in the word "absolutely"
The number of morphemes in the word "reformers"
What is "4"?
A theory proposed by Franz Boas that states the vocabulary of a language tends to emphasize things that are culturally important in that society.
What is "cultural emphasis"?
Edward T. Hall's 4 zones of space
What is the "intimate zone, personal zone, social zone, and public zone"?