Phonemes and Allophones

1. What is an allophone?

• The various ways that an allophone can be pronounced

• A set of speech sounds that are perceived to be variants of the same sound

• Two sounds with different meanings

• All of the above

A sound given in square brackets is a/an __________

• Allophone

• Phoneme

What is a Phonetic Environment?

• A non-contrastive sound

• Each member of a phoneme set

• The words that come before and after a sound in a word

How many phonemes are there in English?

(a)  

Tick all the words that contain nasalized vowels?

• Man

• King

• Bomb

• Pit

The posterior movement of the tongue placement in the direction of the velum for lateral sounds is referred to as ________

• Palatalization

• Velarization

• Lateralization

• Dentalization

An articulatory variation in which the tongue approaches the palate is referred to as ______________

• Dentalization

• Palatalization

• Velarization

• Lateralization

Allophones of a single phoneme are ______ phonetically similar.

• always

• never

Every language has the same number of phoneme consonants.

• True

• False

Allophone is the variation of sound that distinguishes meanings.

• True

• False