Phonology: true or false?

Allophone is a variant of a phoneme.

• True

• False

Phones are concrete realizations of abstract phonemes

• True

• False

Allophones are contrastive variants of a particular phoneme.

• True

• False

All vowels are voiced.

• True

• False

A particular word pronounced in isolation may sound differently in connected speech.

• True

• False

Connected speech makes pronunciation easier in casual speech.

• True

• False

Connected speech refers to careful pronunciation of individual sounds.

• True

• False

In elision a sound may not be articulated in certain contexts to make articulation easier.

• True

• False

MINIMAL PAIRS - pairs of words that differ in one allophone.

• True

• False

/p/ has two allophones [p] and [ph] which are respectively non-aspirated and aspirated form.

• True

• False