Phonetic and grammar terms

Accent



Nasalization



Accentuation



Nasal plosion



Accidental Rise





Neutral



Adjective



Nuclear tone



Adverb



Noise consonants



Adverbial modifier group





Nucleus



Affricate



Notional verb



Allophone



Noun



Alveoli /, , -/

Alveolar 

Numeral (cardinal, ordinal)





Alveolar ridge



Occlusive



Apostrophe



Organs of speech



Apposition



Palatalization



Article (definite, indefinite)





Palatalized



Articulation



Palate



Articulatory phonetics





Palato-alveolar



Aspiration



Partial devoicing



Assimilation (regressive, progressive, reciprocal; partial, intermediate and complete)















Pattern



Author’s words



Pharyngeal /

Pharyngal





Auxiliary verbs



Pharynx



Backlingual



Phoneme



Bilabial



Phoneme sequence



Boundary



Phonemic symbol



Brackets



Phonemic system



Colon



Phonetic alphabet



Comma



Paragraph



Complex tones





Parenthesis



Compound words





Partial stress



Conjunction



Pausation



Consonant



Pause



Consonant cluster





Phonetic paragraph



Constrictive



Phonetics



Contour



Plosion



Curve (downward, upward)





Plosive



Dash



Plural



Dental



Polysyllabic



Devoiced



Post-alveolar



Diphthong



Predicate group



Direct address



Prefix



Disyllabic



Pre-head



Dot



Prenuclear



Emphasis



Preposition



Ending



Prominence



Enumeration



Pronoun



Exclamation mark





Question mark



Facial expression





Range



Final position



Realisation



Flat rounding



Reduction



Forelingual



Reduced vowel



Fricative



Rhythm



Fricative plosion (incomplete plosion)









Rhythmic group



Full stop



RP (Received Pronunciation)





Full stress



Rhythmic structure



Function



Root of the word



Gestures



Scale (Regular/Broken; Descending/

Ascending

Stepping, Sliding, Scandent, Level)















Glide



Semicolon



Handwriting (cursive, italic)





Sentence communicative type (statements,

questions,

imperative, exclamatory)













Head



Singular



Hyphen



Slanting brackets



Implicatory



Slanting line



Initial position



Special Rise



Interdental



Stress (Word Stress, Utterance Stress)





Interval



Schwa



Intonation



Segmental level



Intonation group





Semivowel



Intonation pattern





Simple tone



Inverted commas



Sonorant



Italics



Speech sound



Jaws



Suprasegmental level





Junction



Syllable



Juncture



Stress-timed language





Kinetic tone



Subject group



Labialization



Suffix



Labiodental



Tempo (rapid, (accelerated), moderate, slow (decelerated)









Larynx



Tonogram



Lateral



Tune (simple, compound)





Lateral plosion





Target language



Lax



Tail



Linking



Terminal tone



Lip rounding



Tone



Long vowels



Uvula



Loss of plosion



Velar



Loudness



Vocal cords



Manner of noise production





Voiced



Meaning



Voiceless



Mimics



Vowel



Modal verbs



Utterance



Modification



Word Order



Monophthong



Word Stress (primary, secondary, strong, weak or unstressed)









Monosyllabic



Weak forms



Nasal

