[TOPIC 9 & 10] Language has been a subject of study, so its field of scientific research is now called

[TOPIC 9 ] Simplifying the distinctions of linguistics leads to two branches...

• phonetics

  and phonology

• external and internal

• inner and outer

• morphology and phonetics

What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?

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What's the Received Pronunciation?

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The units of sounds are

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enclosed between slant brackets as in /p/

Give an example of minimal pairs

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[p] is a ....

• phoneme

• homophone

• allophone

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The best-known International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) was first broached by ... and was later developed in the late 19th century by other linguists.

• Otto Jespersen

• Paul Passy

• Derwing

• Munro

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To understand how sounds are produced is studied by .... .... field

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it explores the nature and limits of the human ability to use the speech organs to articulate speech.

What are the speech organs involved in speech production?

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