Phonetic Skills Review

Sounds in language can be divided into two groups: _______ and _________ .

• vowels and consonant

• ear and mouth

• syllables and word

• syllable and phoneme

/ˈaɪ.lənd/

• island

• air land

• alien

The study of speech production is called ....

• acoustic phonetics

• articulatory phonetics

• auditory phonetics

• agricultural phonetics

word decoding

• comprehend passage

• retell a story

• sound out words

• written response

Which of the following words contains a diphthong?

• Cat

• Coin

• Dog

• Sun

What is the phonetic transcription of the word 'thought'?

• /θɔːt/

• /tɔːt/

• /θaʊt/

• /taʊt/

Identify the word with a silent letter.

• Knee

• Cat

• Dog

• Sun

Which of the following is a voiced consonant?

• /p/

• /b/

• /t/

• /k/

What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a language?

• Morpheme

• Phoneme

• Syllable

• Grapheme

Which word has a schwa sound?

• Banana

• Cat

• Dog

• Sun