ALS426 Quiz 2

What is phoneme?

• The smallest unmeaningful distinguishing sound
• The smallest meaning distinguishing sound
• The smallest produced human sound
• The smallest transcription character

One of a closely related set of speech sounds or phone. A subtle sound different that does not affect meaning.

• Phone
• Allophone
• Syllable
• Phoneme

What is minipal pair?

• –When a group of words can be differentiated, each one from the others, by changing one phoneme (always in the same position in the word).
• –When two words such as pat and bat are identical in form except for a contrast in one phoneme, occurring in the different position.
• –When two words such as pat and bat are identical in form except for a contrast in one phoneme, occurring in the same position.
• –When two group of words can be differentiated, each one from the others, by changing one phoneme (always in the same position in the word). 

contain a vowel or vowel-like sound, including diphthongs

• syllable
• Rhyme
• Coda
• Nucleus

the part of a syllable after the vowel...

• Onset
• Rhyme
• Nucleus
• Coda

What are Phonotactics?

• minimal pair
• constraints of the permissible combination of sounds in language.
• constraints of the restricted combination of sounds in language.
• consonants

When two sound segments occur in sequence and some aspect of one segment is taken or “copied” by the other....

• Alliteration
• Elision
• Assimilation
• Assasination

This process of not pronouncing a sound segment that might be present in the deliberately careful pronunciation of a word in isolation. 

• Assimilation
• Consonant cluster
• Elision
• Coarticulation effect

mor.phol.o.gy  [mawr-fol-uh-jee] means...

• The analysis of the structure of English syntactical structure
• The analysis of the structure of words
• The analysis of the sound structure of words
• The analysis of the origin of words

Morphemes are...

• meaningful human gestures
• minimal unit of allowable sound in English
• minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function
• special symbol in language