Teachers & Linguistics
Define Linguistics
(What is) A formal study of language and how it works.
Define Phoneme
(What is) speech sound.
Define Digraph
(What is) A letter cluster that stands for one sound.
Define Voiced Sound
When produced vocal cords vibrate.
Define Diphthong
(What is) a sound in which the position of the mouth changes from one place to another as the sound is created.
Define Phonetics
(What is) The study of speech sounds.
Define Grapheme
(What is) Written representation (a letter or cluster or letters) of one sound.
Define Fricatives
(What is) Creates friction in the mouth by narrowing the air channel and then forcing air through it.
Define Unvoiced
When produced, there is no vocal cord vibration.
(What is) a syllable that ends in a vowel.
Define Consonant
(What is) Air flow is cut off either partially or completely when the sound is produced.
Define Alvelor
(What is) Fricative is formed using the front of the mouth.
Define Allophone
(What is) a slightly different version of each phoneme.
Define Closed Syllable
(What is) a syllable that ends in a consonant.
Define Vowel
(What is) Air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made.
Define Velar
(What is) The back of you mouth.
(What is) a reference to two or more consonants that appear together in a word with each consonant holding its own sound.
Define Plosives (Stops)
(What is) formed by closing or blocking off the air flow and then exploding a puff of air.
(What is) the lips.
(What is) a combined sound that the cluster stands for.
Define Nasals
(What is) formed when the mouth is closed, forcing air through the nose.