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Diacritics
Phonological Development
Phonological Processes
Dialectal Variation
Connected Speech
100
Diacritic used to show that vowels are longer before voiced consonants than voiceless consonants.
What is the lengthening diacritic [pi:z]?
100
Stage of prelinguistic vocalization that typically appears between 6-9 months of age.
What is canonical babble?
100
Stopping, gliding, vocalization, fronting, deaffrication.
What are substitution processes?
100
When the words 'cot' and 'caught' are pronounced with the same vowel.
What is 'low-back merger'?
100
Omission of a sound.
What is elision?
200
Diacritic used with voiced stops to indicate an audible puff of air.
What is aspirated?
200
Consonants that are heard most often in canonical babble.
What are stops, nasals, and glides?
200
'duck' produced as 'guck'.
What is velar assimilation?
200
The pronunciation of a dialect.
What is accent?
200
Rounding of /s/ before a round vowel, as in 'soup'.
What is regressive assimilation?
300
Diacritic used to indicate a change in place of articulation of an alveolar sound when it comes before an interdental sound, as in 'tenth'.
What is dentalized?
300
Expected percent intelligibility of an average 2-year-old.
What is 50%?
300
'bike' produced as 'bite'.
What is (velar) fronting?
300
Use of phonetic or phonological features of your native language when speaking another language.
What is language transfer?
300
Producing 'ask' as 'aks'.
What is metathisis?
400
Diacritic used to show what happens to a vowel when it comes before a nasal consonant, as in 'pan'.
What is nasalized?
400
Expected percent intelligibility of an average 4-year-old.
What is 100%?
400
'spoon' produced as 'poon'.
What is cluster reduction?
400
Region, socio-economic status, age, gender, education.
What are factors that influence an individual's dialect?
400
Overlapping of speech gestures during connected speech.
What is coarticulation?
500
Diacritic used to show how /l/ is produced in post-vocalic position.
What is velarized?
500
Prelinguistic vocalization type that sounds similar to meaningful speech and has appropriate intonation and prosody.
What is jargon?
500
'car' produced as 'gar'.
What is prevocalic voicing?
500
The variety of English associated with higher socio-economic status and prestige and that is typically used in schools, printed English, and mass media.
What is Standard American English?
500
Intonational contour associated with yes/no questions?
What is rising intonational contour?