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Pysiological-acousticis
is 
a 
branch of acoustics that studies the stru
cture and branch function of the sound-
detecting and sound-
forming organs of man andanimals. 
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34. is a type of vowel sound that 
occurs in most spoken languages, 
represented 
in 
the International 
Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol. 
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Obstruent
is a speech sound such as [k], [d ʒ], 
or [f] that 
is 
formed 
by 
obstructing
airflow. 
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Sonorant or Resonant
is a speech sound that is produced with 
continuous, non-turbulent airflow in 
the vocal tract; these are the manners 
of 
articulation 
that 
are 
most 
often voiced in the world‘s languages. 
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Mid vowels
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The defining characteristic of a mid 
vowel is that the tongue is positioned 
midway between an open vowel and 
a close vowel.
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Phonology
is a branch of linguistics concerned 
with the systematic organization 
of sounds in languages. 
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Linguistic prosody
is concerned with those elements of 
speech that are not individual 
phonetic segments (vowels 
and 

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consonants) 
but 
are 
properties 
of syllables and larger units of speech. 
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The nasal cavity
Each cavity is the continuation of one 
of the two nostrils. 
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Morphology
is the main part of grammar that 
studies parts of speech their categories 
and word systems. 
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Morphological le
vel 
studies the smallest meaningful unit of 
a language – morpheme. The term 
m o r p h e m e is derived from Greek 
morphe ‗form‘ + -eme. The Greek 
suffix -erne has been adopted by 
linguists to denote the smallest 
significant 
or 
d i s t i n c t i v e u n i t .
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