Delta Module 1 About language (Phonology)

a manner of pronunciation peculiar to particular individual , location or a nation

A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar and/or vocabulary

is the accent traditionally regarded as a standard for British English for global communication and educational purposes

Match the following

• Phonetics

• the study of speech sounds and sound production in general

• Rhythm

• the smallest element of sound in a language which is recognised by a native speaker as making a difference in meaning

• Phoneme

• the regular repetition of stress in time

• Stress

• the greater emphasis of some syllables or words over others during speech

• Phonology

• the study of how speech sounds are produced, used and distinguished in a specific language

Match the following

• Velar

• Formed at the soft palate

• Alveolar

• formed at the lips and teeth

• labiodental

• Formed at the tooth ridge

• bilabial

• Formed at the two lips

• Dental

• formed at the teeth

The sound formed in the gap between the vocal cords is called

Match the following

• fricative

• through the nose

• semi-vowel

• by explosion

• nasal

• the explosion ending in friction

• plosive

• with little or no interruption or friction

• affricate

• by friction

two words distinguished by only one phoneme are called

• minimal pair

• voiceless sounds

• consonant clusters

• diphthongs

a group of consonants which have no intervening vowels

A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another