Phonetics Intro

Phonetics is the study of the production and perception of the alphabet?

• True

• False

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents the sounds of words not their spellings.

• True

• False

A free morpheme is...

• a speech sound

• a letter

• unit of meaning that can stand alone

• unit of meaning that can not stand alone

What is a phoneme?

• words that only vary by one phoneme

• final consonants

• an individual speech sound that is capable of differentiating meaning

• different letter sequences or patterns

Minimal Pairs

• Variant production of a phoneme

• Distinctive features

• Words that vary by one phoneme

• Silent letters