SPTH1506

Question 1

What is phonology

Answer 1

Rules for combing different sounds into words

Question 2

What is morphology

Answer 2

Rules for formation (Shape)

Question 3

What is syntax

Answer 3

Rules for combining words into phrases and phrases into sentences

Question 4

What is semantics

Answer 4

Rules for assigning meaning

Question 5

Articulatory phonetics

Answer 5

how sounds are produced

Question 6

Auditory phonetics

Answer 6

How sounds are perceived

Question 7

Acoustic Phonetics

Answer 7

Sounds physical aspects

Question 8

Consonants are speech sounds produced with … of the vocal tract

Answer 8

some constriction

Question 9

What are articulators

Answer 9

the tongue, lips, velum etc which change the shape of the vocal tract to produce different speech sounds

Question 10

Place of articulation

Answer 10

The part(s) of the vocal tract (articulators) at which constriction occurs during the production of consonants

Question 11

Difference between voiced and voiceless

Answer 11

Voiced sounds are produced with vibrating vocal folds versus non-vibrating vocal folds

Question 12

Difference between aspirated or unaspirated

Answer 12

Aspirated is a voiceless sound produced with a puff of air that results when the vocal folds remain open for a brief period after the release of the stop i.e pit versus spit

Question 13

How are aspirated sounds written

Answer 13

Using a diacritic, the phonetic symbol raised [h]

Question 14

How is a nasal sound produced

Answer 14

With the velum lowered and air escaping through nose and also into the mouth

Question 15

Three-way classification of consonants

Answer 15

Voicing + Place + Manner (VPM)

Question 16

What does fricative means

Answer 16

A consonant produced with the airflow severely restricted but not totally blocked so that friction results, which is why the sounds are called fricatives

Question 17

What does affricate mean

Answer 17

A consonant produced by creating a stop closure followed immediately by a gradual release of the articulators producing an effect characteristic of a fricative

Question 18

Vowels are produced with … to the air flowing through the oral cavity.

Answer 18

no significant obstruction

Question 19

Monophthongs define

Answer 19

Vowels whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and the vowel quality does not change within the same syllable

Question 20

Diphthong define

Answer 20

a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another i.e coin, loud and side

Question 21

p transcription voiced or voiceless?

Answer 21

puh i.e pie

voiceless bilabial stop

Question 22

b transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 22

buh, i.e buy voiced bilabial stop

Question 23

m transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 23

muh, i.e my, voiced bilabial nasal

Question 24

f transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 24

fuh, i.e fan voiceless labiodental fricative

Question 25

v transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 25

vuh, i,e van voiced labiodental fricative

Question 26

θ transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 26

th, i.e bath, voiceless dental fricative

Question 27

ð transcription voiced or voiceless

Answer 27

th, i.e bathe, voiced dental fricative

Question 28

t transcription

Answer 28

tuh, tie, voiceless alveolar stop

Question 29

d transcription

Answer 29

duh, i.e die voiced alveolar stop

Question 30

n transcription

Answer 30

nuh, i.e night voiced alveolar nasal

Question 31

s transcription

Answer 31

suh, i.e sue voiceless alveolar fricative

Question 32

z transcription

Answer 32

zuh, i.e zoo voiced alveolar fricative

Question 33

ʃ transcription

Answer 33

sh, i.e pressure voiced postalveolar fricative

Question 34

ʒ transcription

Answer 34

sh, i.e pleasure voiced, postalveolar fricative

Question 35

tʃ

Answer 35

ch i.e voiceless chive postalveolar affricate

Question 36

dʒ

Answer 36

j, i.e jive voiced postalveolar affricate

Question 37

ɹ

Answer 37

r, i.e right central postalveolar approximant

Question 38

j

Answer 38

ya, i.e yes central palatal approximant

Question 39

k

Answer 39

ka, i.e cat or peck, voiceless velar stop

Question 40

g

Answer 40

guh, i.e peg, voiced velar stop

Question 41

ŋ

Answer 41

ng sound i.e sing voiced velar nasal

Question 42

h

Answer 42

huh, i.e high voiceless glottal fricative