Intro to Phonetics and phonology

1. What is the main difference between Phonetics and Phonology?

• • A. Phonetics studies sound production and perception; Phonology studies abstract sound patterns.

• • B. Phonetics is about word meanings; Phonology focuses on sentence structure.

• • C. Phonetics studies grammar; Phonology deals with spelling.

• • D. Phonetics and Phonology are the same.

2. What does articulatory phonetics primarily study?

• • A. Physical properties of speech sounds

• • B. How speech sounds are produced

• • C. Perception of speech sounds

• • D. None of the above

3. Acoustic phonetics is concerned with.............

• • A. Production of speech sounds

• • B. Physical properties of speech sounds as they travel through the air

• • C. Perception of speech sounds

• • D. None of the above

4. Which branch of phonetics explores how speech sounds are perceived by the human ear and processed by the brain?

• • A. Articulatory phonetics

• • B. Acoustic phonetics

• • C. Auditory phonetics

• • D. Linguistic phonetics

5. Which of the following words contains aspirated plosives?

• • A. Skill

• • B. Pat

• • C. Stop

• • D. Spat

6. Identify the type of /l/ sound in the word "light."

• • A. Dark /l/

• • B. Clear /l/

• • C. Neutral /l/

• • D. Aspirated /l/

7. What is a minimal pair?

• • A. A pair of words with the same spelling but different meanings.

• • B. A pair of words with different spellings but the same meaning.

• • C. A pair of words that differ by only one sound, changing the meaning.

• • D. A pair of words that sound identical.

8. Fill in the blank: Phonology examines how sounds _______ within a specific language, like why "bat" and "pat" have different meanings.

• • A. Are produced

• • B. Function

• • C. Are transmitted

• • D. Are heard

9. 9. What is a phoneme?

• • A. A single speech sound that can change the meaning of a word, like /p/ in "pat" and /b/ in "bat."

• • B. A group of sounds that don't change the meaning of a word.

• • C. A silent letter in a word.

• • D. A word with two meanings

10. What is an allophone?

• • A. A sound that changes the meaning of a word.

• • B. A variation of a sound that does not change the meaning of a word, like the /l/ in "light" (clear /l/) and "feel" (dark /l/).

• • C. A word that has a similar sound to another.

• • D. A word that rhymes with another.