Midterm

Question 1

three major fields of phonetics

Answer 1

1. articulatory: how sounds are made in the human vocal tract
2. acoustic: physical nature of sound from mouth to ear
3. perceptual: reception + perception from ear to brain

Question 2

articulatory subsystems

Answer 2

1. supra glottal: pharynx, oral cavity, nasal cavity
2. glottal: vocal folds
3. sub glottal: trachea, lungs

Question 3

phonology

Answer 3

the study of systems and patterns of sounds in languages

Question 4

phoneme

Answer 4

a speech sound that is psychologically a single unit for a specific language

Question 5

allophone

Answer 5

a predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme; similar production and won’t change meaning of the word

Question 6

minimal pair

Answer 6

words that differ in only one sound when written phonetically