Language Frameworks- Phonetics & Phonology

Certain speech sounds are made by drawing together the vocal cords so that they vibrate

• plosives

• voiced

• unvoiced

Hissing sounds e.g. /f/, /z/, /s/ and /v/. are called as

• plosives

• articulation

• fricatives

Distinctive features of pronunciation is ____

• accent

• RP

• dialect

___ refers to words that have the same pronunciation but different spellingand meaning.

• homographs

• homophones

• homonyms

/ə/.is the symbol of is the unstressed vowel sound

• schwa

• rhotic

• accent

If a speaker pronounces that as /dæt/ then it is called as 

• th-fronting

• schwa sounding

• th-stopping

_____ is an accent of English that is typically associated with prestige and high social status.

• RP

• accent

• dialect