Phonology

What is a phoneme?

• the smallest unit of sound

• a blend of phone and meme

• a single letter

• the volume of your voice

p b t d k g are all examples of...

• plosives

• fricatives

• affricates

• nasals

th sh f s are examples of...

• plosives

• fricatives

• affricates

• nasals

ch (as in church) and dg (as in judge) are...

• plosives

• fricatives

• affricates

• nasals

What is a glottal stop?

• a combination of a plosive and a fricative

• how you make an L sound

• making a fricative sound last a long time

• closing vocal cords instead of pronouncing a T

What might the writer of a novel use to represent a character's regional dialect?

• the IPA

• eye-dialect

• diphthongs

• onomatopoeia

What sort of rhyme can we see here: "great grazed grave"

• pararhyme

• eye-rhyme

• reverse rhyme

Which phonological device is being used in the phrase "new blue moon"?

• onomatopoeia

• pararhyme

• assonance

• homophones

If a poet rhymes 'escaped' with 'scooped', what sort of rhyme is this?

• pararhyme

• eye-rhyme

• reverse rhyme

Which is the correct spelling?

• diphthong

• dipthong

• diphtong

• dithpong