GLOSSARY ABOUT PHONOLOGY

phonetic: constituting an alteration of ordinary spelling that better represents the spoken language, that employs only characters of the regular alphabet, and that is used in a context of conventional spelling.

africate: a stop and its immediately following release into a

fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme.

consonant

There are many types of consonant, but what all have in common is that they obstruct the flow of air through the vocal tract.

contraction

English speech has a number of cases where pairs of words are closely combined into a contracted form that is almost like a single word.

dental

A dental sound is one in which there is approximation or contact between the teeth and some other articulator.

pharynx

This is the tube which connects the larynx to the oral cavity. It is usually classed as an articulator

Voiceless Sound: Sounds with vocal chord vibration are voiced and sounds without vocal chord vibration are voiceless.

Voiced Sound: s one in which the vocal cords vibrate, and a voiceless sound is one in which they do not.