Intro Phonetics

Question 1

What does phonetics study?

Answer 1

It studies speech sounds (Phones).

Question 2

What are the different areas of phonetics?

Answer 2

There is articulatory (how speech sounds are produced), acoustic (physics of speech sounds) amd auditory (how sounds are perceived).

Question 3

What is the system in which each letter indicates one unique sound?

Answer 3

The IPA.

Question 4

What does IPA stand for?

Answer 4

International Phonetic Association but mostly for International Phonetic Alphabet.

Question 5

Why do we need the IPA?

Answer 5

To be able to transcribe the speech sounds of any human language.
To record speech sounds accurately.

Question 6

Why can’t we just use (English) spelling to study speech sounds?

Answer 6

English spelling is very inconsistent (Same letter / Different sounds, same sound / Different letters, etc.)

Question 7

What is NAPA?

Answer 7

It stands for North American Phonetic Alphabet.

Question 8

In what field in particular iis the IPA used?

Answer 8

In linguistic research as well as in foreign language teaching.

Question 9

Which words present some silent letters?

Answer 9

Know, douDt, thouGH, iSland, rHubarb, moosE.

Question 10

Which words present the same letter with different sounds?

Answer 10

fAther /a/, About /ə/, Apple /æ/, Any /ɛ/, Age /e/

Question 11

Which words present the same sound with different letters?

Answer 11

sEE, sEA, scEne, recEIve, thIEf, amOEba, machIne /i/