Across
- 2. variant of a phoneme which does not alter its basic identity and will not affect meaning
- 5. another name for "stress-timed"
- 7. a sound which is a voiced, shaped but unimpeded flow of air
- 9. a glide from one sound to another (which many people spell incorrectly)
- 10. feature of connected speech when a sound changes to ease pronunciation of adjacent words
- 12. adjective to describe sounds made using the soft palate
- 13. three broad divisions of pitch
- 14. name of the most common weak vowel sound
Down
- 1. combination of a plosive and a fricative
- 2. feature of English, derived from the existence of weak forms, which enables words to be "squashed"
- 3. adjectives in this position stress the final syllable (e.g. She's Japanese.)
- 4. theory according to which intonation shows us the status of information between speakers
- 6. 2 words which are pronounced the same,but whose spelling & meaning is different e.g. "sun" and "son"
- 8. feature which allows us to differentiate "I scream" from "ice cream"
- 11. function of intonation which gives a characteristic delivery to people of different professions
