Белорусский государственный

Secondary articulation
– an articulation made by two of the organs of speech that are not 
involved in the primary articulation. 
Secondary stress
– a less strong stress than a primary one, usually precedes the primary 
stress in a word. 
Segment
– in phonetics it is the shortest part of speech continuum – a sound or a phoneme. 
Segmental phoneme – 
the shortest part of speech continuum that is capable of 
differentiating words. 
Segmental Phonetics
– a division of phonetics which is concerned with individual sounds 
(“segments” of speech). 
Segmentation
– division of speech into phrases and intonation groups. 
Semantic centre
– see 
Communicative centre
. 
Semantically distributional method (semantic method) of phonological analysis
– It is 
based on a phonemic rule, that phonemes can distinguish words and morphemes when opposed to 
one another. The semantic method attracts great significance to meaning. It consists of the 
systematic substitution of the sound for another in order to ascertain in which cases where the 
phonetic context remains the same such substitution leads to a change of meaning. This process is 
called the 
communication
test. It consists in finding 
minimal pairs
of words and their grammatical 
form. 
Semantic function: 
in phonetics the term is used in connection with the distinctive function 
(semantic role) of phonetic means. 
Sentence stress (Utterance stress)
– the greater degree of prominence given to certain 
words in an utterance. These words are usually nouns, adjectives, notional verbs and adverbs, 
interjections, numerals, demonstrative, possessive, emphasizing pronouns, interrogative words and 
two-syllable prepositions. The distribution of sentence stress is determined by the semantic factor. 
Short vowels
– the vowels having a relatively smaller length, or quantity in comparison 
with the long vowels (other conditions remaining the same). Short English /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ differ from the 
long /i:/ and /u:/ also in quality. 
Sibilant
– a speech sound in which there is high-pitched, turbulent noise, as in English [s] 
and [ʃ] in 
sip
and 
ship
. In English sibilants are /s, z, ʒ/.