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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sounds \& Signs}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Morphology: Break up stream of sounds into words} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Syntax: Take words and form sentences} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Semantics: Literal/contextual meaning from sentence} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Phone: Single linguistic sound} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Phonology: How speakers understand a lang} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Phonetics: physical properties of speech} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Segmental: discrete unit of speech} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Suprasegmental: properties applied to entire syllables or words (eg. tone)} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vowel Chart}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/electoe_1790556464_Screenshot 2026-09-27 204602.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Phonological Analysis}} \tn \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\vspace{1px}\centerline{\includegraphics[width=5.1cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/uploads/electoe_1790556514_Screenshot 2026-09-27 204809.png}}} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Phonetics}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Consonants: Place + Manner of Articulation, Voicing} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Bilabial: Lips come in contact with eachother} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Labiodental: Upper teeth contact lower lip} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Alveolar: Tip of tongue on alveolar ridge} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Velar: Back of tongue contacts velum} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Stops (Plosives): airflow is stopped, built up, released (ob)} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Fricatives: Airflow party stopped leading to turbulence (ob)} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Affricative: Stop + fricative (ob) (dʒɪn or gin)} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Nasal: airflow through nose, Velum down (son)} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Flap: Tongue tip briefly touches roof of mouth (son)} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Lateral Liquid: Tongue touches roof of mouth, open side channels {[}l{]} (son, approx)} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Retroflex Liquid: Tongue tip curled back, not touching roof {[}ɹ{]} (son, approx)} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Glide: limited obstruction like vowel {[}w, j{]} (son, approx)} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Rhoticity presitigous in US, bad in UK} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Vowels: Lip Roundness, Tensity, Tongue Height and Advancement} \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Dipthongs: start off with tongue in one poisition and end in a different position} \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Glottic Consonants: initiate airflow in upper vocal tract thru the glottis} \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 2) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Velaric Consonants: initiate airflow bc of action of the tongue (eg. clicks)} \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 2) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Ejectives/Implosives cant be nasal} \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 1) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Phonetics (cont)}} \tn % Row 19 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Sign Language: Hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation, non-manual markers} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Phonology}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Phonemes: sound we think we're hearing} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Allophone: acoustic realizations of the sounds we think we hear} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Free Variation: allophones can switch out for each other} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Complementary Distrubtion: allophones appear one another one doesnt} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Contrastive Distribution: potential to change the meaning of a word} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Making a rule: Indentify what changes where, make generalization, incorporate natural classes} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{eg. {[}p{]} becomes {[}pʰ{]} at word beginning, Voicless stops become aspirated words initially, {[}+stop,-voice{]} \textgreater{} {[}+aspirated{]} / \#\_\_\_\_} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Overlap = not imformative, no overlap = informative} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Sounds change to due sound production} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Assimilation: where a sound becomes more like a neighboring sound with respect to some phonetic property} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Dissimilation: causes a sound or gesture to be less like a neighboring sound} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Subsitution: systematically replaced with each other} \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Fortition: Makes sounds stronger (part of sub)} \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Lenition: makes sounds weaker (part of sub)} \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Structural Change: added, deleted, or reordered during speech prodcution} \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Epenthesis: adding or inserting a sound to a sequence (structural change)} \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 2) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Phonology (cont)}} \tn % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Elision: deleting or omitting a sound from a sequence (structural change)} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Metathesis: reordering or moving around sounds in a sequence (structural change)} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} 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