Phonetics as a Branch of Linguistics
GLOSSARY Academic style – also scientific style, a style of speech used in lectures, scientific discussions, conferences, etc
Accent – 1) type of pronunciation, that is the way sounds, stress, rhythm and intonation are used in the given language community. 2) see stress.
Accommodation - modifications of consonants under the influence of the neighbouring vowels and vice versa. Acoustic Phonetics – science which deals with the physical property of sounds.
Affricates - noise consonants produced with a complete obstruction which is slowly released and the air stream escapes from the mouth with some friction.
Allophones – variants of a phoneme, usually occur in different positions in the word, cannot contrast with each other and are not used to differentiate the meaning.
Alveolar – sounds produced with the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth (alveolar) ridge.
American English – the national variant of the English language spoken in the USA.
Amplitude - the distance to which the air particles are displaced from their position of rest by the application of some external force.
Apical – sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue.
Applied Phonetics – a branch of phonetics used for practical purposes in speech therapy and logopedia.
Articulatory Phonetics – also Physiological Phonetics, a branch of phonetics which is concerned with the study of speech sounds as regards their production by the human speech organs.
Ascending head – a type of head in which syllables form an ascending sequence.
Assimilation - The modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant in the speech chain.
Auditory Phonetics – a branch of phonetics which is concerned with the way our auditory mechanism works to process speech information, also Perceptual Phonetics.
Back vowels – vowels formed with the tongue in the back part of the mouth.
Back-advanced vowels - vowels formed with the tongue in the
Accent – 1) type of pronunciation, that is the way sounds, stress, rhythm and intonation are used in the given language community. 2) see stress.
Accommodation - modifications of consonants under the influence of the neighbouring vowels and vice versa. Acoustic Phonetics – science which deals with the physical property of sounds.
Affricates - noise consonants produced with a complete obstruction which is slowly released and the air stream escapes from the mouth with some friction.
Allophones – variants of a phoneme, usually occur in different positions in the word, cannot contrast with each other and are not used to differentiate the meaning.
Alveolar – sounds produced with the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth (alveolar) ridge.
American English – the national variant of the English language spoken in the USA.
Amplitude - the distance to which the air particles are displaced from their position of rest by the application of some external force.
Apical – sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue.
Applied Phonetics – a branch of phonetics used for practical purposes in speech therapy and logopedia.
Articulatory Phonetics – also Physiological Phonetics, a branch of phonetics which is concerned with the study of speech sounds as regards their production by the human speech organs.
Ascending head – a type of head in which syllables form an ascending sequence.
Assimilation - The modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant in the speech chain.
Auditory Phonetics – a branch of phonetics which is concerned with the way our auditory mechanism works to process speech information, also Perceptual Phonetics.
Back vowels – vowels formed with the tongue in the back part of the mouth.
Back-advanced vowels - vowels formed with the tongue in the