SHS 250 Exam 1 Complete Study Questions with Correct Answers | Brand New Version

SHS 250 Exam 1 Complete Study Questions with Correct Answers | Brand New Version 1. distortion - ANSWER a speech production error in which a speech sound is recognizable as the correct sound but is not produced exactly correctly 2. articulators - ANSWER the parts of the oral tract that are used to produced sounds; two things coming together (i.e. lips coming together, tongue to top) 3. articulatory phonetics - ANSWER study of phonetics w emphasis on position and movement of articulators 4. acoustic phonetics - ANSWER study of phonetics with respect to the physics of sound 5. clinical phonetics - ANSWER apply concepts of phonetics to disorders; describe the way ppl are producing sounds 6. perceptual discrimination - ANSWER use a symbol to indicate how someone is producing a sound (i.e. a regular /s/ and an /s/ with a lisp) 7. transcription - ANSWER use of symbols to represent the production of speech sounds 8. broad transcription - ANSWER general detail, more than one symbol, just enough to understand what the person is saying 9. narrow transcription - ANSWER fine detail, more than one symbol, adds phonetic detail to broad transcription using diacritics (i.e. they way they said it was it distorted, & in what way was it distorted) ology - ANSWER the study of the structure of words and sentences logy - ANSWER the study of the way speech sounds pattern in language (english vs. french use of [zh] i.e. vision and french the letter J is the same sound like "j'mapalle") tics - ANSWER the study of speech sounds 13.International Phonetic Alphabet - ANSWER a set of symbols adopted by International Phonetic Association to serve as a standardized means to represent the sounds of all the world's spoken languages istic complexity - ANSWER the context in which you are listening to a sound (isolated, in a word, in conversation, etc) 15.Clinical phonetics - ANSWER applications of phonetics to describe speech differences and disorders, including information about speech sounds and the perceptual skills used in clinical settings iples of phonetics... - ANSWER - isomorphism: one symbol for one sound - a sound is written the same all the time - no silent letters - symbols don't change age - ANSWER system that uses sounds, signs, symbols to communicate h - ANSWER a pattern of sounds produced by movement of the speech organs, also a pattern of acoustic vibration ct - ANSWER a subset within a language of patterns of use based on regional or social boundaries (i.e. patterns of phoneme use, word choice, grammar) omy of language - ANSWER - conversation (sentences) - phrases - words - morphemes - phonemes - allophones emes - ANSWER in language, the smallest unit of meaning (i.e. dividing words up: un-want-ed, each is a morpheme because they each have meaning) mes - ANSWER smallest unit of sound that can affect the meaning (i.e. bat; if u change the /b/ to a /s/ or /p/ it's a diff word and a different meaning) hones - ANSWER variations on a phoneme that don't change the meaning (i.e. distorted word, the way its pronounced) age: areas of study - ANSWER 25.Syntax - ANSWER study of the way words combine to form sentences tics - ANSWER the study of the meaning of words and sentences; meaning of words themselves 27./ɛ/ - ANSWER Bet, said, head, ever Kevin said, "Better head eleven steps to the left." 28.Minimal contrasts/Minimal pairs - ANSWER two morphemes differing in only one sound segment - Bin, pin Kin, Kim Met, mat - ANSWER kind of like a morpheme, but it doesn't carry a meaning (i.e. "o" in "speedometer") transcription - ANSWER general detail, more than one symbol, just enough to understand what the person is saying w transcription - ANSWER fine detail, more than one symbol, adds phonetic detail to broad transcription using diacritics (i.e. they way they said it was it distorted, & in what way was it distorted)