WorksheetsPhonetics I- Exam Model- Theory
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
(a) are the smallest contrastive phonological units which can produce a difference in meaning.
___________ can be defined as the variants of each phoneme.
Structural words
Allophones
Weak vowels
(a) refers to the fact that communication consists of a chain of event linking the speaker's brain with the listener's brain.
Select the three levels that are involved in the speech chain:
Acoustic level
Psychological level
Physiological level
Linguistic level
The _________ can be pressed together to produce sounds like /p/, /b/
Lips
Palates
Teeth
The tongue and palate
Vowels are sounds in which there is _________ of the air flow when they are produced and consonants have ______ of the air when they are produced.
No obstruction- obstruction
Obstruction - no obstruction
The (a) is a group of words that are said without any interruption of the speech flow or any pause.
The fact that the prominent elements are chosen by the speaker and that something else could have chosen is a concept known as ________
Prominent
Selection slots
Utterance
Stress
(a) has to do with syllables so it is prominence at word level.
Non-prominent syllables take ________ vowels whereas prominent syllables take ______ vowels.
Strong- weak
Weak- strong
Stressed- unstressed
Structural- content
A ......... is a set of symbols that serve to represent the sounds of any language.
Alphabet
Phonetic trasncriptions
Phonetic alphabet
