Phonetics (Week 1)

The science of phonetics aims to describe all the sounds of all the world’s languages

• True

• False

............................focuses on how the vocal tract produces the sounds of language.

• Acoustic phonetics

• Auditory phonetics

• Articulatory phonetics

............................focuses on how listeners perceive the sounds of language.

• Acoustic phonetics

• Auditory phonetics

• Articulatory phonetics

Which word consists of the two phonemes?

• she

• pen

• pins

Phonemes are any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t.

• True

• False

L at the end of  a word or syllable (or after a vowel) is the light L, such as in bill.

• True

• False

Dialect is a part of an accent_ the variations in pronunciation.

• True

• False

A combination of letters may represent a single sound such as in shine.

• True

• False

A single letter may represent a combination of sounds such as in 'box'.

• True

• False

An accent is the way that a particular person uses language.

• True

• False