Basic Terms in Phonetics

______ is the study of the sounds of human speech.

______ refers to the variations in pronunciation that occur among speakers of the same language.

The symbols for vowel and consonant phonemes are found in the ______ alphabet.

In phonetics, a ______ is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning.

In phonetics, the use of ______ helps to represent the sounds of speech in a standardized way.

Phonetics is the study of the ______ made by the human voice in speech.

Auditory phonetics studies how the ear ______ the speech signal.

Received Pronunciation (RP) is a variety of English pronunciation associated with the ______ population.

Phonetic transcription represents each distinct speech sound with a unique ______.

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled ______.