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Connected Speech
Allophones (only for bonus points)
Disordered Speech
Suprasegmentals
Potpourri
100
This phenomenon found in connected speech occurs when there is a reduction in a function word (like an article or preposition) that can reduce the length of vowels, reduce vowels to schwa, or omit sounds entirely.
What is a weak form?
100

This happens on word-final plosives when the closure is gradually released and no "puff" of air is heard.

What is unreleased?

100
This type of sound is when a nasal stop is produced with forcible air ejection at the nares.
What is a nareal fricative?
100

This is a change in pitch that changes meaning at the word level.

What is tone?

100

In compound nouns, this is the syllable that is stressed.

What is the first syllable?

200
This is when one consonant becomes more like a neighboring consonant.
What is assimilation?
200

This occurs before dental fricatives, as in the word "width".

What is an dental allophone?

200
These sounds are formed by the striking of one rigid articulator against another, like the lips or teeth.
What is a percussive?
200

This is a change in pitch that changes meaning at the phrase or sentence level.

What is intonation?

200

The rime or rhyme consists of these parts of a syllable.

What are the nucleus and coda?

300
This phenomenon found in connected speech occurs when a sound is omitted, usually a consonant in a word-final consonant cluster.
What is elision?
300

You get this kind of allophone on sounds before a vowel like /u/.

What is rounded?

300
This kind of sound is produced when air is forced through a constricted velopharyngeal port.
What is a velopharyngeal?
300

This is the perceptual correlate of fundamental frequency.

What is pitch?

300

This is the manner in which stressed and unstressed syllables succeed each other.

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What is rhythm?

400
This is the combination of two separate sounds across a word boundary into one new sound.
What is coalescence?
400

This happens to /k/ in front of a vowel like /i/, as in the word "key."

What is fronting?

400
This is when there is articulation between the top lip and bottom teeth.
What is dentolabial?
400

This is the degree of force of an utterance or prominence produced by means of respiratory effort.

What is stress?

400

This is the term used to describe how words are produced in isolation, rather than in connected speech.

What is a citation form?

500
This occurs in non-rhotic accents; /ɹ/ is often put back in word-finally, when the next word starts with a vowel.
What is liaison?
500

This is what happens to voiceless plosives after /s/.

What is unaspirated?

500
This is articulation between the tongue tip and upper lip.
What is linguolabial?
500

These types of words are usually stressed over function words in English.

What are content words?

500

This principle of syllabification states that there is a tendency in languages for as many consonants as possible to be syllabified into the onset of a syllable.

What is the maximum onset principle?