An ELT Glossary : Terms connected with phonology


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Allophone
Alveolar consonants             
Apical consonants                      
Articulators

Back vowels              

Cardinal vowel                         
Catenation                 
Centre vowels                         
Citation form/Strong form
Clipping                       
Close vowels          
Connected speech
Consonant cluster                  
Continuant sounds 
Contrastive stress

Dental consonants          
Diphthong

            
Falling tone                
Fall-rise tone                        
Fricative consonants 
Front vowels  


Head (phonology)
Homorganic consonants

Intonation
Intrusion/Intrusive consonants                        




Laminal sounds
Lateral consonants                 
Lax vowels
Long vowels


Minimal pair                          
Monopthong

                   
Nasal consonants                    
Nucleus/Tonic syllable

Open vowels     

                    
Phoneme
Phonemic script
Phonemic symbols
Phonetics
Phonics
Phonology 
Pitch/Key                        
Place of articulation                    
Plosive/Stop consonants           
Proclaiming tone
Prosodic features                   

Received pronunciation – RP
Referring tone                                              
Regressive assimilation                                           
Rising tone                 
Rise-fall tone
Rounded vowels

Schwa                     
Semi-vowels
Sentence stress
Short vowels
Spread vowels            
Stress
Stress pattern
Stress timing             
Strong form/Citation form

Tail                
Tap/Flap consonants
Tense vowels
Tone
Tonic syllable /Nucleus


Unvoiced consonants

                      
Voice /Voicing
Vowel sounds

Weak forms
Word stress

yod
yod coalescence