English Language Phonetics and Phonology

What does the word "phone" means?

• science

• nothing

• sound

• speech

What is phonetics?

• The way people speak

• The study of all human speech sounds

• The name of the subject

It is one branch of phonetics.

• Articulatory

• Speech

• Pronunciation

• Sounds

What is phonology?

• The way sounds are transmitted

• The study of the sound system of particulars human languages

• The way sounds are received

• The general study of all human speech sounds

What is a phoneme?

• A description of the sound

• The different sounds in English

• A subcategory of phonetics

• A unit of sound in speech

What is an allophone?

• The variants of a phoneme

• The repetition of the sounds

• Making words

• A pronunciation mistake

What is a minimal pair?

• Phonemes and allophones

• Phonetics and phonology

• The variants of a phoneme

• Pairs of words that have one phonemic change between them

Mention the two categories of the English Language sounds: