Defining
Moments
How did you
say that?
Exemplary
Examples
Definitive
Descriptions
Where are you from?
100
smallest meaningful speech sound in a language
What is a phoneme?
100
[:]
What is prolongation?
100
/p/ and aspirated /p/.
What are allophones?
100
Is a sound that is produced by a partially or completely constricted vocal tract.
What is an obstruent?
100
Our individual way of speaking.
What is an ideolect?
200
a stand alone unit of meaning
What is a free morpheme?
200
[h]
What is aspiration?
200
cat, walk
What are free morphemes?
200
Is a combination of two vowels in the same syllable
What is a diphthong?
200
a variation of a language spoken by a certain group.
What is a dialect?
300
the study of speech sounds and their permissible combinations in a language.
What is phonology?
300
[<-->]
What is lateralization?
300
Plural -s, pre-, un-
What are bound morphemes?
300
Tells the point of contact for articulators to produce a sound.
What is PLACE
300
You change it according to the perception of a listerner's needs.
What is register?
400
the smallest meaningful unit of grammar in a language.
What is a morpheme?
400
[~]
What is nazalization?
400
clicks, coos and raspberries.
What are phones?
400
Tells how the airflow is obstructed, or HOW the sound is produced.
What is MANNER?
400
Migration, politics, geography or disease.
How are dialects developed over time?
500
a variation of a phoneme. It does not change meaning.
What is an allophone?
500
[ ]
What is dentalization?
500
cats (/s/), dogs (/z/), and horses (/Iz/)
What are allomorphs?
500
These consonants share the same manner and placement, but differ in voicing.
What are cognates?
500
It occurs when one switches between dialects and languages within one conversation.
What is code switching?