Глоссарий

0. accent may refer to prominence given to a syllable, usually by the use of pitch.

All speech sounds are made by making air move. Usually the air is moved outwards from the body, creating an egressive airstream; more rarely, speech sounds are made by drawing air into the body – an ingressive airstream.

If speech is thought of as a string of sounds linked together, assimilation is what happens to a sound when it is influenced by one of its neighbours.

A sound made with both lips.

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

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

The most important feature of a diphthong is that it contains a glide from one vowel quality to another one.

If two sounds that are different from each other can occur in the same phonological context and one of those sounds may be substituted for the other, they are said to be in free variation.