phonology

What does phonetics study?

• The meaning of words

• Sounds as articulatory and acoustic units

• The structure of sentences

• The history of language

What is the focus of phonology?

• How sounds function in communication
  

• The production of speech sounds
  

• The meaning of words
  

• The origins of phonemes

What is a phoneme?

• A variant of a sound that does not change meaning

• The smallest unit of meaning
  

• A sound in its contrastive sense

• A written symbol

What is the morpheme-distinctive function of phonemes?

• To distinguish between different morphemes
  

• To change the grammatical category of a word

• To make speech faster

• To emphasize stress in a sentence

Which pair of words shows a word-distinctive function?

• light – lit
  

• mop – mopping

• mæn – men

• happy – happiness

What is the constitutive function of phonemes?

• To create meaningful linguistic units

• To distinguish different phonemes

• To indicate sentence structure

• To determine the tone of speech

What is the recognitive function of phonemes?

• Helping recognize words and grammatical structures

• Helping differentiate dialects

• Assisting in speech therapy

• Identifying a speaker’s age

How does the [p] sound change in "sport" compared to "port"?

• It is aspirated in both words

• It loses aspiration after [s] in "sport"
  

• It becomes voiced in "sport"

• It does not change

• The recognitive function of phonemes helps listeners easily identify words and sentences.

• True

• False

The pronunciation of a sound is never influenced by its position in a word or by neighboring sounds

• True

• False