Speech Registers
This register consists of the use of unchanging archaic language, like the Pledge of Allegiance, Lord's Prayer, etc.
What is the frozen speech register?
This is the amount of emphasis we place on a sound, syllable, or word.
What is stress?
This refers to consonant sounds that are produced across two syllables.
What is ambisyllabic?
This subfield of phonetics studies the movements that produce speech sounds.
What is articulatory phonetics?
In this place of articulation, the lower lip approximates the under edge of upper front teeth.
What is a labiodental?
This register consists of communicating with an authority figure, like a student-professor conversation.
What is the consultative speech register?
This type of stress emphasizes a sound, syllable, or word so that a listener will pay attention to that sound, syllable, or word .
What is contrastive stress?
This is the process of segmenting words into syllables.
What is syllabification?
This is the study and practical application of phonetics to solving real-life problems affecting the diagnosis and treatment of individuals who exhibit speech sound errors.
What is clinical phonetics?
In this manner of articulation, the articulator blocks airflow through the oral cavity, while air escapes through the nasal cavity due to the lowered velum.
What is a nasal?
This register consists of speaking with close friends and family members.
What is the intimate speech register?
This is the the underlying, unchanging stress pattern of a word.
What is lexical stress?
This is the the overlapping of speech gestures.
What is coarticulation?
These are speech sounds that establish meaning.
What are phonemes?
In this place of articulation, the posterior portion of the body of the tongue and/or root of tongue approximates the uvula.
What is a uvular?
This register consists of speaking to your peers.
What is the casual speech register?
This type of stress refers to emphasis that, if changed, results in a change in word meaning and the syntactical category of the word.
What is grammatical stress?
This is the term for consonant sounds in syllable-final position.
What is syllable-arresting?
These are variations in pronouncing / producing sounds (phonemes) that can be either predictable or random.
What are allophones?
This group of consonant sounds are produced with complete or partially obstruction of airflow through the vocal tract,
What are obstruent consonants?
This register consists of one-way communication, like giving a speech.
What is the formal speech register?
In a word with three or more syllables, this is the least heaviest stress.
This principle states that word-medial consonants should be assigned the onset position in a syllable, unless doing so would violate the phonological rules of the language.
What is the maximal onset principle?
This is the study of the actual auditory (sound) signal generated when speech sounds are produced.
What is acoustic phonetics?
This is a type of approximant consonant that is not prolongable.
What is a glide?