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- What is phonetics?
- Study of the perception and production of speech sounds.
- What are the 6 Branches of Phonetics?
- Historical, Physiological, Acoustic, Perceptual, Experimental, and Clinical Phonetics
- What is Historical Phonetics?
- Study of how speech sounds change over time. Also, it deals with research.
- What is Physiological Phonetics?
- aka, Articulatory Phonetics. It is the study of how speech sounds are physically made (production part of phonetics). Also, it deals with research.
- What is Acoustic Phonetics?
- Study of acoustic properties or frequencies of speech sounds (sound as it travels through the air between the speaker's lips & listener's ear). Also, it deals with research.
- What is Perceptual Phonetics?
- Study of how humans perceive speech sounds (for ex., perception of difference between /m/ and /n/ sounds). Also, it deals with research.
- What is Experimental Phonetics?
- Laboratory study of physiological, acoustic, & perceptual phonetics (Dr. F. sees this as same as Physiol. Phonetics). Also, it deals with research.
- What is Clinical Phonetics?
- Study of incorrect speech sounds (what we'll be using phonetics for in SLP). Also, it does not deal with research- it deals with repairing/trying to change behavior (speech).
- What is Phonology?
- Study of how speech sounds are used in a language (its actually a part of Phonetics).
- What is a grapheme?
- A written letter of the alphabet (not IPA symbol) and its the opposite of a phoneme.
- What is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
- An alphabet used to represent the sounds of the world's languages; promotes a universal method of transcription.
- What is a dialect?
- when you have slightly different usage patterns of a language (differs in vocab, grammar,...); degree is all that makes 2 of them different in one language.
- What are reasons dialects vary?
- Regional (based on location), Ethnicity (based on culture), Social class, and Native Language.
- What is General American English (GAE)?
- aka, Standard American Engilsh... Its a form of English that is relatively devoid of regional characteristics; used by nnational news anchors, in textbooks, ...
- What is code switching?
- Speaking different dialects in different speech situations.