Lecture 6: Phonetics

Question 1

What is Phonology?

Answer 1

The study of behavior or patterning of speech sounds

Question 2

What are Phonemes represented in?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is the Phonemic level?

Answer 3

Psychologically abstract level of sounds

Question 4

What are Phonemes?

Answer 4

The phonological units into which predictable variants (allophones) of non-contrastive segments are grouped

Question 5

What would occur if a different Phoneme is subbed in?

Answer 5

A different word is produced

Question 6

What do Phonemes signal?

Answer 6

A contrast in meaning

Question 7

What is within Phonemes?

Answer 7

Allophones

Question 8

What are Allophones?

Answer 8

Variants of a Phoneme

Question 9

What are the characteristics of Phonemes?

Answer 9

• usually phonetically similar
• Do no signal a contrast in meaning
• Are represented in square brackets

Question 10

What are Allophone represented in?

Answer 10

Square brackets

Question 11

What are Allophone represented in?

Answer 11

Square brackets

Question 12

What does the Minimal Pair test tell us?

Answer 12

When two sounds belong to different phonemes

Question 13

What is the criteria for the minimal pair test?

Answer 13

• Same number of phones
• Same environment
• Contrast in only one segment
• Distinguish meaning

Question 14

What does it mean if two words are a near minimal pair?

Answer 14

The segments belong to different phonemes

Question 15

What is the criteria for Near minimal pairs?

Answer 15

• Same immediate environment
• More than one phonetic difference
• Differ in meaning