Phonetics 2

the descriptive perspective on phonetics focuses on

• phonemes

• phones

• the sound system

• the concrete realization of sounds

the consonant [d] is a voiced alveolar plosive

• true

• false

the two criteria to describe vowels are frontless and ...

Diphthongs are not represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA

• True

• False

when we refer to phones, we use

• slashes //

• square brackets []

Phones can occur in complementary distribution. What does that mean?