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Phonology and Phonetics (Warm-Up)
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The most widely used phonetic script is the...
International Phonetic Alphabet
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The types of vowel sounds are...
Monophthongs and diphthongs.
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What is Phonetics?
It is the general study of the characteristics of speech sounds.
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Type of phonetics study that deals with the physical properties of speech as sound waves in the air...
acoustic phonetics
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What is Phoneme?
A phoneme is the smallest unit in the sound system of a language.
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The study deals with the perception, via the ear, of speech sounds...
auditory phonetics
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Which is the theory Phonology studies are based on?
It is, in effect, based on the theory of what every speaker of a language unconsciously knows about the sound patterns of that language.
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The three criteria that linguists use to describe vowel sounds are...
Height, backness, roundedness
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What're the criteria to describe consonant sounds?
Voicing, place of articulation, manner of articulation.
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Mention at least 5 places of articulation.
Bilabial, labiodental, dental, alveolar, palatal, velar, glottal
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The study of how speech sounds are made or articulated is...
articulatory phonetics
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Mention at least 5 manners of articulation
Nasal, stop, fricative, affricative, approximant, lateral
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The difference between vowels and consonants is...
that consonants involve some constriction of airflow, whereas vowels do not.
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What is Phonology?
It is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech sound in a language.
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