2.1.2 - Phonology

Question 1

What’s phonology

Answer 1

The study of sounds

Question 2

What’s acquisition

Answer 2

How we gain and acquire language

Question 3

How many phonemes are there

Answer 3

44

Question 4

What’s the vocal tract

Answer 4

The system by which sounds are produced

Question 5

Phonemes can be described as being _ or _

Answer 5

Voiced

Unvoiced

Question 6

Each articulated (or combo of articulators) produces …

Answer 6

A different type of sound

Question 7

What are dental sounds

Answer 7

Sounds produced using the teeth

Question 8

What are the 2 dental sounds you need to know

Answer 8

Theta sound

Thorn sound

Question 9

What are labiodental sounds

Answer 9

Sounds produced using both the teeth and lip(s)

Question 10

What are bilabial sounds

Answer 10

Sounds produced by using both lips

Question 11

What are alveolar sounds

Answer 11

Sounds produced by the younger being pressed against the alveolar ridge

Question 12

What are palato-alveolar sounds

Answer 12

Sounds produced when the tongue is pressed past the alveolar ridge, but not quite at the hard palate

Question 13

What are velar sounds

Answer 13

Sounds produced by the tongue touching the velum (soft palate)

Question 14

What are glottal sounds

Answer 14

Sounds produced in the glottis

Question 15

What are palatal sounds

Answer 15

Sounds produced when the tongue is against the hard palate

Question 16

What are voiced phonemes

Answer 16

The vocal folds are vibrating

Question 17

What are unvoiced phonemes

Answer 17

The vocal folds aren’t vibrating

Question 18

List all types of sounds. 8

Answer 18

Dental sounds 
Labiodental sounds 
Bilabial sounds 
Alveolar sounds
Palato-alveolar sounds 
Velar sounds 
Glottal sounds 
Palatal sounds

Question 19

List all manner of articulations

Answer 19

Affricates 
Lateral approximant 
Approximant 
Fricatives 
Plosives 
Nasals

Question 20

What are Affricates

Answer 20

Start as plosives and end as fricatives

Question 21

What are lateral approximants

Answer 21

Produced by air being forced between the sides of the tongue and the tongue being pressed against the alveolar ridge

Question 22

What are approximants

Answer 22

When articulators are brought close together but aren’t fully touching

Question 23

What are fricatives

Answer 23

Pushes of air

Question 24

What are plosives

Answer 24

Quick releases of built up air

Question 25

What are nasals

Answer 25

Sounds that release air through the nose and not through the mouth