Linguistic Test 2

The energy transmitted by a sound wave, in phonetics usually by a speech wave

Acoustic feature

Acoustic energy

Acoustic correlate

Acoustic cue

In phonology, a segment which occupies a syllabic margin

Approximant

Vowel

Consonant

Contoid

A sound produced near or on the alveolar ridge

Glottal

Palatal

Lateral

Alveolar

Any acoustic characteristic of a segment which aids in the recognition of that segment in speech

Acoustic correlate

Acoustic feature

Acoustic cue

Acoustic energy

A word which has been copied into a language from another language, because of contact

External lexicon

Linguistic adjustment

Loan word

Calque

A geographical region in which several unrelated languages share a number of linguistic features which are not widespread among languages generally or not shared with related languages elsewhere

Diglossia

Linguistic area

Isogloss

Social boundary

Any of various proposals for ranking consonants according to some intrinsic property or according to their susceptibility to some process

Vocalic hierarchy

Phonetic hierarchy

Lexical hierarchy

Consonantal hierarchy

A distinctive feature which is related primarily to an acoustic characteristic of a segment, rather than to an articulatory characteristic

Acoustic feature

Acoustic energy

Acoustic cue

Acoustic correlate

That part of the complete grammar of a language which contains at least the lexical and grammatical morphemes, including any peculiarities which these may exhibit

Linguistic data

Filed notebook

Language encyclopedia

Lexicon

Variations in how a phoneme is pronounced which do not create a meaning difference in words

Free variation

Allophonic variation

Open variation

Closed variation