the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit in a language
What is a phoneme?
this kind of syllable is never stressed
What is a weak syllable?
the roof of the mouth
What is the palate?
a voiced/lenis bilabial nasal
What is /m/?
the default tone for a command
What is a fall/falling intonation?
one realisation of a phoneme among others
What is an allophone?
an intermediate level of stress typically found in words with 3 or more syllables
What is secondary stress?
a mobile articulator used for the production of vowels and velar consonants
What is the tongue?
a voiceless/fortis alveolar fricative
What is /s/?
the part with no accented syllables at the end of an intonation phrase
What is the tail?
a pair of words which differs in only one sound and meaning
What is a minimal pair?
a word class whose members are typically stressed on the final syllable
What is a verb?
a sound which is produced with the tongue between the teeth
What is a dental/interdental sound?
a voiced/lenis velar approximant
What is /w/?
an accent in an intonation phrase which is not the most important one
What is an onset?
the (study of the) transmission of sounds from speaker to listener
What is acoustic phonetics?
a word class whose members are typically stressed on the first syllable
What is a noun?
a sound produced with the tongue directly behind the upper teeth
What is an alveolar sound?
a voiceless/fortis glottal fricative
What is /h/?
one of two tones used to signal that an utterance is incomplete
What is a (fall-)rise?
(the study of) features of pronunciation extending over more than one sound/word
What is suprasegmental phonology?
the nucleus of weak syllable can consist of a short vowel without a coda or of these sounds
What is a syllabic consonant?
the part of the vocal tract containing the vocal folds
What is the larynx?
a voiceless/fortis palatoalveolar affricate
What is /สง/?
a unit of spoken material (chunk) which has its own intonation pattern
What is an intonation phrase?