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Question 1

What is an allophone?

Answer 1

A group of speech sounds which are minimalistically linguistically contrastive to other phonemes

Question 2

What is a diacritic?

Answer 2

A phonetic symbol to show a difference in pronunciation.

Question 3

What is the diacritic symbol used for [ṽ] ?

Answer 3

Nasalisation

Question 4

What diacritic related speech sound quality should be looked out for?

Answer 4

Nasalisation
Nasal cavity should be cut off but isn’t - velum isn’t working properly.
Sudden onset in adults - can indicate neurological changes.
Children - can indicate DVD or cleft velum.

Question 5

What is the diacritic symbol used for [t̪] ?

Answer 5

Dentalisation
Tongue moves forward - between an alveolar and dental.

Question 6

What is this diacritic symbol used for? [ʷ]

Answer 6

Labialisation

Question 7

What is the diacritic symbol used for [ɫ]?

Answer 7

Velarisation
Back of the tongue goes up

Question 8

What is secondary articulation?

Answer 8

An additional feature of pronunciation.
First POA is hit and then a second POA is hit.

Question 9

What are the different types of secondary articulation? *may be more to come

Answer 9

Nasalisation
Dentalisation
Labialisation
Velarisation

Question 10

What are the rules of the dark and clear ‘l’?

Answer 10

Clear ‘l’ is used before vowels
Dark ‘l’ is used before a consonant or a pause (or at the an end of a word in a sentence)