Linguistic Test 8

Any segment which is a plosive, a nasal a fricative or a lateral resonant - in other words, any segment other than a central resonant

Vowels

Approximants

Consonants

Contoids

An individual occurrence of a phoneme in a particular word in a position in which it contrasts with other phonemes

Macro phoneme

Meta phone

Allophone

Micro phoneme

Sound that involves contact between the two lips

Bilabial

Apico-dental

Labiodental

Dental

The rhythmical arrangement of syllables in verse, according to the number and types of feet used

Juncture

Rhythm

Foot

Metre

Any phonological process in which a word or (more commonly) a sequence of words is reduced by the removal of some internal material, possibly with the application of some further phonological processes

Constriction

Contractions

Short form

Abbreviated form

Voice quality where whisper is combined with voicing

Creaky voice

Breathy voice

Soft voice

Aspirated voice

A process where one sound is influenced by the characteristics of an adjacent sound.

Assimilation

Deletion

Elision

Conversion

The process by which a speaker consciously adjusts her/his speech towards a different variety perceived as more desirable

Adaptation

Impoliteness

Convergence

Politeness

Vowels where the back part of the tongue is raised

Upper vowel

Front vowel

Lower vowel

Back vowel

Two words of distinct meaning which exhibit different segments at one point but identical segments at all other points

Similar pair

Self-repair

Adjacency pair

Minimal pair

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