PHONETICS FINAL TERM EXAM

The Study of the way Humans make, Transmit, and Receive Sounds

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Phoneme

the study of sound systems of languages

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Phoneme

A phonological segment that can be phonetically predicted by a rule – /b/ in bit and /p/ in pit.

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Phoneme

Most vowel sounds are modified by the shape of the lips.

• True

• False

Sounds are made by vibrating the vocal cords (______)

• high pitch

• Vocaling

• Voicing

Vowels can be

single sounds :

• monophthongs or pure vowels

• Diphthongs

• Triphthongs

Vowels can be

Double sounds

• single sounds

• Diphthongs

• Triphthongs

Upper lip, Palate, Uvula ara all part of the _____

• throat

• lips

• mouth

When a word has many syllables, one of them is always pronounced more strongly.

This is called word stress

• True

• False

• confident

• Confirmation