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Worksheets10/2 Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
True/ False: Phonetics is the study of speech sounds
True
False
Humans create speech sounds by:
◦forcing air up from the lungs, through the vocal tract, and out the nose or mouth.
◦forcing air up from the lungs, through the vocal tract, and out the ear
How can the air from our lungs get shaped by the vocal tract to create different sounds?
◦Vocal fold vibration
◦Place of articulation
◦Manner of articulation
International Phonetic Alphabet
As Linguists and SLPs, Why do we use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
To have an efficient system that provides 1 symbol to represent a unique sound. This allows us to look at a symbol and know exactly which sound it represents
To have an efficient system that provides multiple symbols for 1 unique sound.
True or False: Phonology focuses on how the sounds of a language pattern
True
False
(a) are meaning-distinguishing sounds that are abstract sound units found within a speaker's mind.
Contrastively, (a) are different “versions” of a phoneme that are actually pronounced.
True or false: In some languages, aspirated and regular sounds create differences in meaning, making them separate phonemes.
True
False
True or false: in Khmer it does not matter whether a consonant is aspirated or not
False
True
The phonotactics of a language concern:
The study of grammatical and derivational word forms
the phonetic and phonological “rules” of that language
