Phonetics chapter 2 Quiz

Clinical phonetics ........

-is basic to effective and efficient clinical practice -is the study of the perception and production of speech sounds -involves identification of sound segments that have linguistic significance in a language

How many morphemes are in the word 'butter'?

1 'butter' cannot be broken down to smaller morphemes (units with meaning).

How many syllables are in the word 'walked'?

1 The 'ed' ending makes the 't' sound. It is an added phoneme/sound to the word 'walk', but it is not an added syllable.

how many phonemes are in the word 'teach'

3 t ea ch Although the vowel and the ending consonant are written with two letters, each of these has only one sound associated with the letters.

How many phonemes are in the word 'immune'?

5 - i m (y) u n Did you hear the 'y' sound? Even though we pronounce the letter 'u' as 'yoo', the sound of 'u' is only 'oo'. In 'immune', we say 'you' within that word.

Write a word that would be a minimal pair to the word 'same'

Some possible answers are: some, came, name, sage, tame, game, Sam, seem

Speech is: both a and c

a pattern of movement of the speech organs and a pattern of acoustic vibrations

The phonetic variant of a phoneme is called a (an).....

allophone; An allophone is a variant of a phoneme.....one of the members of the phoneme family. The 'k' sound in 'queen' is an allophonic variation of the 'k' sound. It is produced differently than the 'k' sound in 'cow'.

To help a child learn the correct position of his tongue in order to produce the 'r' sound, the speech/language pathologist must have a working knowledge of what area of phonetics?

articulatory

Omit the vowel in 'climbed' and replace it with the long 'a' sound (as in 'hay). What word do you get?

claimed

Special marks that help us distinguish among allophones are known as:

diacritic marks

We use minimal contrasts to identify the morphemes in a language.

false

True or False: The following syllables are all closed syllables: cough, slow, rough, ride,

false; 'cough', 'rough', and 'ride' all end with a consonant sound; 'slow', however, ends with a vowel sound.

Speakers of different dialects usually CAN'T understand each other.

false; Of course. Speakers of different dialects should be able to understand each other most of the time. Otherwise they'd be speaking different languages.

Most people do not speak a dialect.

false; everyone speaks a dialect

The word "hats" has one morpheme.

false; it has 2

When two speech sounds can be interchanged in the same word position without changing meaning, they can be said to be in

free variation

a syllable...

has an onset, will either be open or closed, can have a variety of consonant combinations (Even though it may be the null set, the onset is the beginning of all syllables. An open syllable ends with a vowel sound; a closed syllable, a consonant.)

Most of us can identify Kathryn Hepburn, Donald Duck, and James Earl Ray (Darth Vader) just by the sound of their voice. We all have distinguishing speech patterns that are unique to each of us. This uniqueness is calld.....

idiolect

The form of speech that distinguishes each of us as individuals is known as our:

idiolect which is a variation of a language.

When two morphemes differ in only one sounds segment, we refer to this as....

minimal contrasts (pairs) Minimal pairs are two morphemes or words that differ by only one sound segment, such as 'pot/pod', 'cake/cook'. The contrasting phonemes are 't' and 'd', and 'a' and 'oo' respectively.

Units of meaning in language are sometimes referred to as:

morphemes.

When the phonemes (sounds) in 'ton' are reversed, what word do you get? (Be sure to spell the word correctly).

nut

Phonemes are made up of:

one or more allophones.

The speech segments of a language that differentiate morphemes are called.....

phonemes

The study of units of sound that distinguish between morphemes is known as:

phonemics; This is the study of morphemes and allomorphs.

The "b" sound in the word "rub" can be said to be in _____________ position(s).

post vocalic, syllable final, syllable arresting

Omit the 't' sound in 'rate' and replace it with the 'z' sound. What word do you get?

raise

When the sounds in the word 'mace' are reversed, what word do you get? (Be sure to spell the word correctly.)

same

Omit the 'th' sound in 'though' and replace it with the 's' sound. What word do you get?

sew

The group of people who live near you and speak the same language as you can be called your:

speech community

phonology is....

the study of the sound system of a language

How many morphemes are in the word 'reoccuring'?

three

How many syllables are in the word 'commitment'?

three

Which of the following words ends in an open syllable?

to

Allographs are letters or letter combinations that represent the same phoneme.

true

Morphology is the study of units of meaning in language.

true

Some morphemes are not real words.

true

A person's lexicon is the list of all of the morphemes they know.

true; Yes. This is in contrast to the vocabulary which is all the words a person knows.

If you exchange one sound for another in a word and the meaning does NOT change, then the two sounds are allophones of the same phoneme.

true; this is an allophone

Closed syllables end in vowels.

False. Closed syllables end in consonant sounds. Open syllables end in vowel sounds.