A vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one to another
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Syllable
A sound unit with a vowel at its centre
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Accent
A regional variety of speech that differs from other regional varieties in terms of pronunciation
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Accomodation
The ways that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others (convergence and divergence)
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Sound Iconicity
The use of sound to mirror form or meaning
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Idiolect
A persons unique way of speaking
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Back channeling
Non verbal utterances and physical actions that let the speaker know your listening e.g. ummm, umm humm
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Hedges
Delaying a response often using non verbal utterances like umm
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Fillers
Filling pauses with either verbal (e.g. like) or non verbal (e.g. ur) utterances
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Prosodic features
Involves features such as tone, volume, internation which are all oral features of language that cannot be read
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Non verbal utterances
Sounds rather than words bound by the speakers silence
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Paralinguistic features
Features that are in addition to actual speach such as gestures and eye contact
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Utterance
A complete unit of speech bound by the speakers silence
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Turn taking cue
A signal such as a silence or a question tag that lets the new speaker know its their turn to speak
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Self correction
Correcting an error mid way through speech
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Question Tags
Short questions added onto an utterance
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Prosodics
The soundtrack to out words - rhythm, pitch, volume, intonation
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Adjacency pair
2 turns produced by different speakers where the second utterance is identified as related to the first including question and answer, offer and accept, compliment and rejection
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Paralanguage
Aspects of an individuals vocal expression such as whispering, laughing and breathiness as well as non verbal behaviours such as eye contact
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Dialect
Describes both a persons accent adn the gramatical and lexical features of the way they speak
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Non fluency features
Hesitations, Fillers, false starts, repititions
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Contraction
Words shortened through the use of an apostrophe e.g I'm instead of I am
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Card 2
Front
A vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one to another
Back
Dipthong
Card 3
Front
A sound unit with a vowel at its centre
Back
Card 4
Front
A regional variety of speech that differs from other regional varieties in terms of pronunciation
Back
Card 5
Front
The ways that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others (convergence and divergence)
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