Phonetics vs. Phonology

What is the primary focus of phonetics?

• The abstract rules and patterns of sounds in a language.

• The physical properties and production of speech sounds.

• The meaning of words in context.

• The study of sentence structure.

Phonology primarily deals with:

• How sounds are produced and transmitted.

• The physical properties of sound waves.

• The abstract rules and systems of sounds in a language.

• The perception of sounds by the human ear.

Which of the following is not a focus of phonology?

• The distinction between phonemes.

• Phonological rules like assimilation and elision.

• How sounds are transmitted through the air.

• Syllable structure and sound patterns in a language.

Phonetics studies phones and allophones. What does phonology primarily study?

• Phones.

• Syllables.

• Phonemes.

• • Sound waves.

Which of the following questions would be of interest to a phonetician?

• What are the rules for vowel harmony in Finnish?

• How is the sound /k/ produced physically in the vocal tract?

• How does the /s/ sound change before a voiced consonant?

• How many phonemes are in the word cat?

Which tool is most likely to be used by a phonetician?

• Minimal pair test.

• Spectrogram.

• Phonological rule analysis.

• Syllable structure chart.

Which of the following is a phonological concept rather than a phonetic one?

• Voicing.

• Aspiration.

• Phoneme distinction.

• Place of articulation.

Which of the following would a phonologist study?

• The articulation of the [tʰ] sound in top.

• The frequency and amplitude of vowel sounds.

• The way sounds function as phonemes in a particular language.

• The acoustic properties of fricatives.

In the context of phonetics, what is a phone?

• A distinctive sound unit that changes meaning.

• A physical sound, regardless of its function in the language.

• A sound that occurs in complementary distribution with another sound.

• A rule that governs sound patterns.

Which is an example of a phonological rule?

• Measuring the duration of vowel sounds in different environments.

• Describing how /p/ becomes aspirated [pʰ] at the beginning of a stressed syllable.

• Studying how the vocal cords vibrate during the production of voiced sounds.

• Investigating how the shape of the vocal tract affects sound waves.