Phonetics Allophone and Word Stress Revision 1

We use /ɫ/ (dark "l") before ALL consonants

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

The "l" is clear when it's followed by a vowel or /j/

We can say they light up her world.

Devoicing type 1 affects 4 sounds:

(a)  

Answer explanation

— Quite cute

— Crystal clear!

Aspiration affects the following sounds:

• /p/

• /g/

• /h/

• /k/

• /t/

Answer explanation

Now you're ready to beatbox!

A syllable can have...

• No peak

• No coda

• No onset

• No vowel

Answer explanation

All syllables must have a peak, but sometimes that peak isn't a vowel.

Do you remember who can take the vowel's place in the syllable?

We can identify a stressed syllable from two point of views:

• the point of view of prominence and loudness

• the point of view of energy and duration

• the point of view of pitch and quality

• the point of view of production and perception

Answer explanation

Production: depends on the muscular energy used

Perception: determined by the prominence of the syllable

There are four characteristics of prominence

(a)  

Answer explanation

And together, they make stress!

There are three levels of stress:

• primary, secondary, and unstressed

• primary, secondary, and tertiary

• mega, kilo, giga

• mili, centi, deca

• kinder, elementary, middle

Answer explanation

Oh, to live life in the unstressed level...

There's only one level of stress that can have a change in pitch (TONE).

Which is it?

(a)  

Answer explanation

It looks like the tone doesn't really like the other two levels...

We call the loss of sharpness in unstressed vowels "vowel..."

• unsharpening

• unclear

• reduction

• elision

Answer explanation

"This is what we are reduced to? A simple schwa!?"

- most monophthongs at one point

Weak syllables can have 4 types of peak:

(clues)

- most monophthongs reduce to...

- the vowel /iː/ reduces to...

- the vowel /uː/ reduces to...

- the /ə/ reduces to...

• /ə/

• nothing

• /ʊ/

• syllabic consonant

• /ɪ/

Answer explanation

Vowels may leave but they will always leave someone else behind :)