PHONETICS

Is the discipline that studies sounds as physical events.

• Phonemes

• Phonetics

• Phonology

These are the three branches of Phonetics.

(a)  

Which branch of it (Phonetics) have we been studying in class lately?

• Acoustics

• Auditory

• Articulatory

Is the smallest unit of writing of a language system.

• Phoneme

• Grapheme

• Morpheme

Answer explanation

The graphemes represent with symbols the sounds we use to speak: "the letters".

This is the phonetically distinct variants of a phoneme.

(a)  

The phoneme is...

• The smallest unit of reading of a language.

• The smallest unit of speech of a language

• The difference between a sound and a letter.

Answer explanation

The phonemes doesn't have any meaning, they're just sounds.

These are two of the active articulators:

• Lips and tongue

• Teeth and hard palate

• velum and pharynx

• None of them

Answer explanation

The rest of them are: the uvula and the vocal folds.

Teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate, velum and pharynx are (a)   articulators.

When the vocal folds vibrate we produce ...

• consonants

• letters

• vowels

• graphemes

Answer explanation

This happens because there's no obstruction in airflow.

The articulatory movements of the tongue and lips refers to:

• the vowel quality

• the consonant quality

• the phoneme quality

• the allophone quality

Answer explanation

This is how many times we articulate to produce sounds.