Better Pronunciation

--------------------------- is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds

• Phonology

• Phonetics

• Phonics

• Philology

The relation between sounds and letters in English is ---------

• consistent

• reliable

• inconsistent

• predictable

The word ------------- is transcribed as /keə/.

• car

• cure

• cow

• care

The vowel sound /e/ is found in----------------

• head

• friend

• bed

• all of them

A --------------- is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract

• Vowel

• consonant

• phoneme

• diphthong

There are ---------- vowel phonemes in English.

• 24

• 5

• 20

• 44

--------------------is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Phonetics

• Phonics

------------------is a method for teaching people how to read and write an alphabetic language

• Phonetics

• Phonics

• Phonology

• Morphology

A--------------is a written symbol that represents a sound (phoneme). This can be a single letter, or could be a sequence of letters

• grapheme

• phoneme

• letter

• vowel

Which of the following words has a consonant cluster?

• shoe

• chair

• speak

• write