What is articulatory phonetics?
It identifies precisely which speech organs and muscles are involved in producing the different sounds of the world’s languages
When the International Phonetic Alphabet was proposed?
in 1888
WHAT IS A FREE MORPHEME?
It is a minimal shape that can be used in discourse with no other forms attached to it
Where is the alveolar ridge?(organ in human body)
In the upper surface, behind the upper teeth, there is a bumpy area
Give examples to palato-alveolar sounds
/S, Z, tS, dZ/ (exemplified by the final consonants of fish, garage, rich, ridge, respectively)
What is Auditory phonetics?
It is concerned with the perception of speech by the hearer
What is variation within the accent?
Difference depending on the speakers’ physical characteristics, or geographical location, or because some speakers have adopted a new form or word or sound
Who defined word as “the smallest structural piece that can be surrounded by pauses.”?
Dixon and Aikhenvald (2002)
In a stop sound, the release of the closure is quick and abrupt; however, in sounds where the closure release is gradual, it creates friction. Such sounds are called...
affricates
How Ea´glero`ck receives stress?
Ea´glero`ck receives only one primary stress on Eagle, and a secondary stress on rock
What is a suprafix?
It is a regular morphological process that adjusts the shapes of words by changing pitch, tone, or stress.
WHAT ARE DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES?
Morphemes added to roots to create new stems
Give some examples to lexical ambiguity
Bank, oil, chair
Why the articles a and the are clitics?
Because they attach phonologically to whatever word that follows