PERIOD 1 REVIEW

Subfield of phonetics that studies how sounds are perceived by the ear, it also investigates the perception of the pitch and loudness of sounds.

• Articulatory phonetics

• Auditory phonetics

• Acoustic phonetics

Select the voiceless consonants

• /z/ /ʒ/ /k/ /h/

• /dʒ/ /g/ /ŋ/

  /j/

• /p/ /f/ /θ/

  /t/

• /s/ /ʃ/

  /tʃ/ /m/

True or False

Minimal pairs is when two different allophones in a phonemic environment can replace each other without altering the meaning of the word

• True

• False

Theory of the origins of language that explains how rimitive words derive from imitations of the natural sounds that early men and women heard around them

• Divine source

• Tool-making source

• Social-interaction theory

• Natural sound source

This theory discusses the idea that there’s a connection between physical gestures and orally produced sounds

• Physical adaptatipn

• Tool-making source

• Innate source

• Social interaction theory

Theory that claims that language is a system of functionally related units: the phonological, grammatical, and semantic structures of a language.

• Structuralism

• Generative grammar

• Functionalism

This theory sees language is a system in which all the elements fit together and the value of any one element depends on the simultaneous coexistence of all the others.

• Structuralism

• Generative Grammar

• Functionalism

Place of articulation of the following consonsnts /ʃ/ /ʒ/ /tʃ/ and /dʒ/

• Velar

• Alveolar

• Post-Alveolar

• Dental

A phoneme is...

• the smallest meaning distinguishing sound unit

• the phonetically distinct variants of a sound

• the phonetic environmen tin which a phone occurs.

True or False

Dissimilation is a phonological process in which two close sounds, similar consonants or vowels, change to become less alike.

• True

• False