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WorksheetsPHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS GENERAL CONCEPTS
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
______ deals with production, transmission and reception of all human speech sounds in general.
PHONETICS
PHONOLOGY
The study of how sounds are patterned or organized and used in natural languages.
PHONETICS
PHONOLOGY
Phonetics is divided into three main branches, articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics.
TRUE
FALSE
The word "phonema" that comes from the Greek means "sound".
TRUE
FALSE
Accent and stress mean the same.
TRUE
FALSE
Acoustic Phonetics
studies the physics of the speech signal
studies the activity of the speaker's vocal tract
do not use special software to produce spectrograms
do not measure or analyze the speech vibrations
It does it in form of vibrations in the air.
Active Articulation
Acoustic Phonetics
Phonotactis
A phoneme...
is when two similar words sound different
is the smallest unit of sound within a spoken word
can have an infinite number of allophones
The most important articulator is the...
tongue
palate
lower lip
glottis
An example of voiceless (produced without vibration of the vocal cords) affricate is...
/ch/
/f/
/ʈʃ/
/aʊ/
A pair of words with one phoneme difference only is called...
Allophones
Fricative
Minimal pair
The words "Best"and "Vest"are...
Minimal pairs
Fricatives
Affricates
