PHONOLOGY

Question 1

PHONOLOGY

Answer 1

STUDY OF ABSTRACT CATEGORIES THAT ORGANIZE THE SOUND SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE.

Question 2

SPECTROGRAM

Answer 2

“A spectrogram is a graphic representation of the frequency distribution of the complex jumble of sound waves that give the hearing impression of speech sounds. “

Question 3

PHONEME

Answer 3

Any of the distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguishes one word from another.

Question 4

PHONE

Answer 4

A physical realisation of a speech sound like the voiceless or the voiced alveolar approximant

Question 5

ALLOPHONES OF THE PHONEME

Answer 5

Phones which function as alternant realisations of the same phoneme

Question 6

DISTRIBUTION

Answer 6

relationship btw 2 diff elements of the same kind in which 1 element is found in one set of environments and the other element is found in a complementary set.

Question 7

complementary distribution

Answer 7

Two sounds which are distributed in such a way that one can only occur where the other cannot occur

Question 8

minimal pairs

Answer 8

Word pairs like wrap and lap or wrap and map

Question 9

free variation

Answer 9

the phenonmenon of 2 sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning

Question 10

released consonant

Answer 10

after the building-up phase, something else follows – the release of the air that has been built up. This does not happen in spectrogram – the air pressure is not released.

Question 11

unreleased consonant

Answer 11

or un-released realisations we use the symbol [p˺].