Speech Sound Disorders Midterm

What is the main difference between articulatory phonetics and phonology?

• Phonetics and phonology are synonymous

• Phonetics: based on physical production of speech sounds, Phonology: specific to linguistic understanding of phonemes in a given language

• Phonetics is how sounds are put together to form words and phonology is the study of speech sounds

• Phonetics is linguistically based, while phonology is based on speech sound production

Which of the following are labiodental cognates?

• /k, g/

• /f, v/

• /s, z/

• /p, b/

Which of the following pairs is NOT used for vowel classification?

• high/low

• front/back

• hypernasal/hyponasal

• rounded/unrounded

What is the difference between vowels and consonants?

• consonants have less constriction than vowels

• vowels are characterized by their manner while consonants are classified by place of constriction

• consonants may be voiced or unvoiced

• vowels may be voiced or unvoiced

Which of the following pair of words represents allophones of the phoneme /g/?

• golf, geese

• greek, green

• go, goat

• gate, gain

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is

• morpheme

• grapheme

• phoneme

• words

Why is it difficult for an infant to produce speech sounds?

• tongue fills oral cavity at rest

• larynx lies closer to the oral cavity opening

• an infant's vocal tract is 3x longer than an adult

• labial structures are still developing

How intelligible would we expect a 3 year old to be to unfamiliar listeners?

• 50%

• 100%

• 75%

• 90%

Children's first 50 words often consist of what kind of phonemes?

• back phonemes (/k,g/)

• front phonemes (/p,b/

• strident phonemes (/s,z/

• liquid phonemes (/r,l/)

Asking a child to tell you what word is made from c-a-t is an example of?

• phoneme blending

• phoneme segmentation

• phoneme isolation

• phoneme deletion