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PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS GENERAL CONCEPTS

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

______ deals with production, transmission and reception of all human speech sounds in general.

a)

PHONETICS

b)

PHONOLOGY

2.

The study of how sounds are patterned or organized and used in natural languages.

a)

PHONETICS

b)

PHONOLOGY

3.

Phonetics is divided into three main branches, articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

The word "phonema" that comes from the Greek means "sound".

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

Accent and stress mean the same.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

Acoustic Phonetics

a)

studies the physics of the speech signal

b)

studies the activity of the speaker's vocal tract

c)

do not use special software to produce spectrograms

d)

do not measure or analyze the speech vibrations

7.

It does it in form of vibrations in the air.

a)

Active Articulation

b)

Acoustic Phonetics

c)

Phonotactis

8.

A phoneme...

a)

is when two similar words sound different

b)

is the smallest unit of sound within a spoken word

c)

can have an infinite number of allophones

9.

The most important articulator is the...

a)

tongue

b)

palate

c)

lower lip

d)

glottis

10.

An example of voiceless (produced without vibration of the vocal cords) affricate is...

a)

/ch/

b)

/f/

c)

/ʈʃ/

d)

/aʊ/

11.

A pair of words with one phoneme difference only is called...

a)

Allophones

b)

Fricative

c)

Minimal pair

12.

The words "Best"and "Vest"are...

a)

Minimal pairs

b)

Fricatives

c)

Affricates