English Language Phonetics and Phonology

What is the phonetic notation system used to represent all of the phones in human speech?

• IPI

• API

• IPA

• APA

Which refers to vowel production?

• Fricatives and Affricates

• Monophthongs and Diphthongs

• Monothongs and Dipthongs

• Fracitives and Affracites

What is the alveolar ridge?

• Where consonants such as /d/ and /t/ are produced

• The ridge just behind the lower teeth

• The ridge just behind the upper teeth

• Where vowels such as /e/ and /i/ are produced

Place of articulation....

• describes how airflow is obstructed to make a sound

• is not part of phonology

• involves every sound that doesn't include voicing

• describes where constriction happens to make a sound

Manner of articulation....

• describes the way airflow is obstructed in the vocal tract to make a consonant sound

• describes the way airflow is obstructed in the vocal tract to make a vowel sound

• describes how the vocal cords use air to make a consonant sound

• can involve a stop or lateral approximant

Vowel production...

• is the same as consonant production

• involves the height and length of the tongue

• involves the height of the tongue, the front-back position of the tongue and the extent of lip rounding

• involves the height of the tongue, the front-back position of the tongue, the extent of lip rounding and teeth positioning

An elongation of diphthongs often reveals...

• nothing

• that some is speaking Standard English

• the degree of broadness of their accent

• English is their second language

Elision and assimilation are different because...

• one removes a sound and one changes a sound

• one removes a sound and one removes words from a sentence

• one reduces a sound to 'schwa' and one changes a sound to a neighbouring sound

• one removes a sound and one adds in a sound

'wanna' is an example of

• A. elision

• B. assimilation

• C. vowel reduction

• D. B&C

• E. A&C

Prosodic features are...

• the metalinguistic term for body language

• laughing and non-fluency features in spoken texts

• properties that relate to the pronunciation of syllables, words and phrases

• primarily how fast someone is speaking