Phonology height, frontness/backness

Which word is a height vowel?

• Freezer

• Row

• Wrap

• Said

Which word is a frontness vowel?

• Had

• Row

• Clue

• Slow

Which word is a backness vowel?

• Cell

• Call

• Kind

• Tree

The three criteria that linguists use when describing vowel sounds are height, backness, and roundedness

• True

• False

The sound /u:/ is high back rounded vowel

• True

• False

The sound /a:/ is an example of the high vowel

• True

• False

In high vowels, such as [i] and [u] the tongue positioned high in the mouth

• True

• False

Which word is a high vowel?

• Gall

• Wrap

• Said

• Shoes

Where is the position of the tongue in the frontness and backness vowel?

• From back to front

• From top to back

• From front to back

• From bottom to front

Where is the backness vowel is produced?

• The back of the tongue is in the back of the mouth

• the back of the tongue is in the front of the mouth

• the front of the tongue is in the back of the mouth

• the front of the tongue is in the front of the mouth