Phonetics
A unit of pronunciation represented by a phonetic symbol in broad transcription
What is a phoneme?
Enclosures used for narrow transcription
What are square brackets? [...]
The smallest meaningful unit
What is a morpheme?
The alternate ways of pronouncing morphemes
What are allomorphs?
The module of language that deals with meaning
What is semantics?
The four parameters of articulatory description for vowels
What are height, frontness, tensing, and rounding?
The actual pronunciation of a speech sound
What is a phone?
The fact that unlockable has two meanings is a morphological example of this phenomenon
What is structural ambiguity?
The phonological rule that produces the following /tutər/ --> [tuɾər]
What is flapping/tapping?
The study of language use in context
What is pragmatics?
The missing phonemes from /tɛləv_žən/?
What is cap-I /ɪ/?
A minimal pair is two words showing that two sounds belong to (the) __________ phoneme(s)
What is separate?
The function word from the following list:
Philadelphia, alphabet, blue, or, excitement, tumble.
What is or ?
The category of phonological process to which the following rule belongs:
/ǰ/ --> [č] / voiceless __
What is (voicing) assimilation?
Distinct words that happen to be pronounced the same
Ex. knight and night
What are homophones?
The high vowel in /kəmbučə/
What is /u/?
The English phonological rule that derives the following:
task /tæsk/ --> [tʰæsk]
What is aspiration?
The 3 morphemes in the word revisiting
What are re-, visit, and -ing?
This phonological rule derives the following: /spič+z/ → [spičəz]
What is schwa insertion?
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is syntactically grammatical yet semantically _________
What is incoherent? (or anomalous)
The broad transcription of pizza
What is /pitsə/?
The English rule(s) that produce(s) the following (vowel stress not included):
round /rawnd/ → [rã:wnd]
What are nasalization and vowel lengthening?
The morphemes that make up the word dehumanization
What are de-, human, -ize, -ation?
The English indefinite article has two of these: [ə] used before a vowel and [ən] before a consonant
What are allomorphs?
“I’ll have (already) eaten” is an example of this tense-aspect combination
What is the future perfect tense?