Pho-Names
This is the articulatory description for /t/.
What is voiceless alveolar stop?
Voiced sounds only occur when these vibrate.
What are vocal folds?
The set of environments in which a sound occurs.
What is distribution?
A process by which a sound becomes more like a nearby sound in terms of some feature(s).
What is assimilation?
In this type of language, only the position of a word can determine its function.
What is an analytic language?
This is the articulatory description for /ʒ/.
What is voiced post-alveolar fricative?
Rounding refers to the o-like shaping of these.
What are lips?
The sounds that come before and after a particular sound in a word.
What is phonetic environment?
Phonological process by which a segment not present in the phonemic (or underlying) form is added in the phonetic form
What is insertion?
Fusional, polysynthetic, and agglutinating are different examples of this type of language.
What are synthetic languages?
This is the articulatory description for /ŋ/.
What is a voiced velar nasal?
This immovable place of articulation is necessary to create sounds like /t/, /d/, /s/, and /z/.
What is the alveolar ridge?
A term used to describe two sounds that can be used to differentiate words in a language
What is contrastive distribution?
Process by which two nearby sounds become less alike with respect to some feature.
What is dissimilation?
Daily Double!
This is the other term for Isolating languages.
What are analytic languages?
This is the articulatory description for /ɛ/?
What is mid front lax unrounded vowel?
The raising and lowering of the soft palate opens and closes access to this.
What is the nasal cavity?
The occurrence of sounds in a language such that they are never found in the same phonetic environment.
What is complementary distribution?
Switching of the order of two sounds, each taking the place of the other
What is metathesis?
Type of language that attaches several affixes to a stem to indicate grammatical relationships
What is polysynthetic?
This is the articulatory description for /ɑ/.
What is a Low back lax unrounded vowel?
Most phonemic articulations, especially in English, woud be impossible without this.
What is the tongue?
Term used to refer to two sounds that occur in overlapping environments but cause no distinction in the meaning of their respective words.
What is free variation?
Long-distance assimilation between vowels such that they share a feature such as height, advancement, rounding, or tenseness
What is vowel harmony?
Morphological process by which several distinct semantic components are combined into a single word in a polysynthetic language
What is incorporation?