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Tutorial exercises

1. Speech sounds are


a. Physical sound realities
b. Basic unit within phonetics
c. Can be examined w/o referring to a specific language system
d. All the above are true
2. ______ refers to how speech sounds function within a specific language
a. Speech sounds
b. Linguistic function
c. Phonemes
d. Phonetics
e. Phonology

4. Phonology is:
a. The study of how phonemes are organized and function in communication to
convey meaning
b. Refers to the description of the allowed combinations of phonemes in a
particular language
c. List of all the vowels and consonants that function in AE to differentiate
meaning
d. A disorder
13. The study of phonology includes which topic?
a. Examining individual language sound patterns
b. Mapping out the possible ways that humans use speech organs to create
sounds
c. Analyzing words to discover their meaningful parts
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above
15. The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a .....
a. Phoneme
b. Phone
c. Morpheme
d. Allophone
16. The smallest unit of sound that is segmentable in the sound stream is called
a ...
17. Allophones are realizational variants of ......
a. A phoneme
b. A morth
c. A morpheme
d. A phone
24. The approximant /j/ and /w/ differ from the vowels /u/ and /i/ in ...
a. nothing phonetically
b. the height of the tongue
c. the position of the tongue
d. their behavior in a syllable
25 .How are vowels different from consonants?
a. They are spoken further back in the mouth
b. They can occupy the nucleus of a syllable
c. They are always nasal
d. They are always voiced.
26. The following are distinctive features of consonants except
a. Place of articulation
b. Vocal backness
c. Manner of articulation.
d. Voicing

27 . Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words chosen from the list below.

ALLOPHONE ALLPHONES ADDITION DELETE DIFERENCE


DIFFER MEAN MEANING MINIMAL MINIMUM
PHONE PHONES PHONEME PHONEMES PHONETIC
PHONETICS PHONOLOGY SIGNIFY SIGNIFICANT SOUND
SOUNDS SYMBOL SYSTEM SYSTEMS VOICE

The study of all possible human vocal sounds is called (1)...................... However,
not all the differences between (2) ..................... are significant. For example, the
Italian "n sounds" in nonno and in banco are different but they depend on the
(3) .....................context: technically, we say that they are two (4)........ of one and
the same (5) ..................... /n/.
The English nasal sounds in the two words sin and sing, instead, (6) .....................
meaningfully and this shows that they belong to two different (7) ......................
Consequently, the two words sin and sing constitute a (8) ..................... pair. Such
pairs are very important in detecting (9) ..................... differences.
The study of the sound (10) ..................... of a language in terms of meaningful
units is called (11) ......................

28. How does phonology differ from phonetics?


a. Phonology requires a PhD to study it.
b. Phonetics is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation.
c. Phonology is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation.
d. They are the same.

29. Sound that is produced is when vocal cords vibrate is

a. Voiced
b. Voiceless
c. Palatal

30. Sounds produced by partially or completely blocking air in its passage from the
lungs through the vocal tract is

a. Vowels
b. Consonants
c. Diphthongs

31. The branch of phonetics that study the hearing and perception of speech sounds
is

a. Acoustic Phonetics
b. Auditory Phonetics
c. Articulatory Phonetics

32. The scientific study of the production, transmission and reception of speech
sound is

a. Phonetics
b. Phonology
c. Morphology

33. Indicate whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.

a. The term labio-dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the


lower lip towards the upper teeth
b. [z, /θ, v] The production of these sounds involves a vibration of the vocal
cords.
c. [w, k, l] The production of these sounds involves a movement of the body of
the tongue in the direction of the velum.
d. The term dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the lower
lip towards the upper teeth.
e. Plosives are produced with complete closure in the vocal tract followed by a
gradual release.
f. The term backness refers to the movement of the blade of the tongue
g. Approximants are produced by two articulators coming close together, but
not close enough to cause friction
h. [m, n, k] In the production of these sounds the velum is lowered.
i. Raising the velum enables the air to flow through the nasal tract.
j. In the articulation of voiced sounds, the vocal cords are brought close
together.
k. Different sounds are created by changing the properties of the vocal tract
l. Most speech sounds are made by allowing air to flow through the nose
m. The glottis surrounds the vocal cords.
n. A sound whose articulation involves movement from one vowel position to
another is called a diphthong.
o. The terms ‘high’ ‘low’ and ‘mid’ refer to the distance between the jaws.

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