The closure between the soft palate and the pharyngeal wall, all sounds are produced with this, except nasals.
What is a velic closure
100
closure in the mouth cavity, but a velic opening
What is a nasal
100
two vowels inside one syllable...produced with the movement of the tongue from one position to another.
What is a dipthong
100
range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighboring areas
What is dialect continuum
100
ecognized as a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related languages can readily understand each other without intentional study or extraordinary effort
What is mutual intelligibility
200
the use of teeth and lips are involved as in f and v
What is labio-dental
200
articulators close enough to produce turbulence, or friction.
What are fricatives
200
pure vowels
What are monophthongs
200
a variety of a language unique to an individual.
What is idiolect
200
formality of the dialect
What is prestige vs stigmatized dialects
300
the tongue touches the ridge of this as in t, d, or n.
What is the alveolar closure
300
air escapes on one of both sides of the tongue
What is a lateral
300
all other sounds (vowels semivowels, laterals, approximants, nasal and flaps)
What are sonorants
300
the point which in between two different dialects
What is barriers
300
pronounces every "r"
What is rhotic
400
the lips touch each other as in m, b, and p
What is the bilabial closure
400
English [r] that is produced with the tongue curved behind the alveolar ridge.
What is an approximant
400
stops fricatives and affricates (typically occur in pairs:voiceless and voiced)
What is an obstruent
400
is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature.
What is isogloss
400
with "r" it is pronounced at the end of a word when the next begins with a vowel
What is linking r
500
the tongue touches the soft palate (the velum) as in k, g, and ng.
What is a velar closure?
500
very short closure at the alveolar ridge.
What is a flap
500
they delimit the space in the mouth in which vowels are produced
What is border of friction and anatomical border
500
variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers
What is dialect
500
pronounced when is does not correspond to the letter "r" in the spelling