Manner of Articulation
A class of consonants consisting of voiced lateral approximants like /l/ and /r/.
Liquids
Right, Left
Speech sounds are produced with the tongue touching or very close to the upper front teeth
Dentals
Branch of linguistics that deals with the meaning of words and how words relate to concepts
Semantics
Different realizations of the same phoneme. Surrounded by []
Allophones
What articulatory properties do [θ] and [ʃ] have in common?
Manner of articulation
The rounded counterpart to [ɪ]
[ʏ]
True or False, Palatal sounds are produced by narrowing the airflow between the tongue and the uvula.
False (Palatal sounds are produced by raising the tongue toward the hard palate, not the uvula.)
The study of meanings of words and sentences in a larger social context
Pragmatics
When two sounds occur in completely separate environments.
Complementary distribution
The manner of articulation that describes the vibration of the tongue, lips, or uvula against some other part of the mouth.
Trill
The symbol described as a close front unrounded vowel. It is found in the words meet, cleat, and sheet.
[i]
Give two examples for each: active articulators and passive articulators.
Passive articulators: upper lip, upper teeth, alveolar ridge, postalveolar region, hard palate, velum, uvula, pharyngeal wall.
Active articulators: lower lip, tongue tip, tongue blade, tongue front, tongue back, tongue root, epiglottis.
How does phonology differ from phonetics
Phonetics is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation, and phonology is more focused on how speech sounds change and behave when in a syllable, word, or sentence.
When we possess this we are able to consciously reflect on the nature of language
Occurs in word such as way, rye, and you. When one articulator comes close to the other without creating friction.
Approximant
Frontness/Backness, Height, Rounding.
The term for speech sounds produced by narrowing the airflow between the tongue and the epiglottis, which is located deep within the throat
Thematic relations are linguistic representations whose theoretical function is to explain and predict syntactic behavior. They include roles such as theme, goal, location, and actor. Explain what role the agent plays.
The noun phrase or pronoun that identifies the person or thing that initiates or performs an action in a sentence.
A bound morpheme that attaches to a base. (hint: includes prefix, suffix, infix and circumfix)
Affix
Consonants with these manners of articulation form the class of sonorants, which have fairly unrestricted airflow, either through the nasal or oral cavity. (Hint: five types)
Nasal stops, approximants, taps, and trills
A particular class of vowels that move from one position to another in a short duration of time
Dipthong(s)
A common shortened adjectives this place of articulation is epiglottopharyngeal, what place of articulation is this referring to?
The epiglottis and pharyngeal wall
Transcribe the following using broad transcription (no diacritics): Jeopardy.
dʒepɚdi or dʒepəɹdi
An example of a syntactic test for a verb.
Any of the following:
- can combine with auxiliary verbs (e.g., can, will, have, be)
- can follow the infinitive marker to
- can take an object (e.g., kick the ball)