Phoneme Part I and II

What is the major concern in Phonology?

• the segmental and suprasegmental levels

• the sounds

• the basic elements of sound structure

What does the Preliminary (narrow)sound analysis imply? Choose all that apply:

• using angular brackets

• using transcription symbols

• usinhg diacritics for additional information

What does the functional analysis imply?

• showing how many phonetic sounds are in a word

• showing how the sound elements function in a particular word

• showing whether the fonetic sounds are vowels or consonants

Replacing a sound by another within the same word might change its meaning.

• True

• False

Different phonemes determine variations of meaning within a word.

• True

• False

What does the articulatory anlaysis imply?

• analysing how the sounds are heard

• analysing how the sounds are produced

What is Phonetic similarity?

• having sounds which are alike in terms of articulation

• having sounds which are alike in terms of voicing

• having sounds which are different in terms of articulation and voicing

What does the distributional analysis imply?

• the mode of the sound element production

• the place of sound element in focus among the others

• The voicing of the sound elements in focus

The position of a certain sound element next to others within a word usually changes the meaning of the word.

• True

• False

What foes the concept Complementary Distribution mean?

• a sound element can sound the same in different positions

• a sound element sounds differently in different positions