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Question 1

In phonetics what are the basic units

Answer 1

speech sounds or phones

Question 2

How do phoneticians describe and categorize phones?

Answer 2

Basis of articulatory and acoustic features

Question 3

Common articulatory features

Answer 3

articulators
manner of articulation
place of articulation

Question 4

Common acoustic features

Answer 4

nasality

voicing

Question 5

Your __ __ produce __ (__) which you what?

Answer 5

speech
organs
sounds (phones)
have never noticed before

Question 6

Your speech organs produce ___ that you ___ categorize as the ___

Answer 6

phones/tokens
mind
same

Question 7

When are phoneticians doing phonetics?

Answer 7

When they listen for and record the soudns produced by speech organs

Question 8

phoneme

Answer 8

mental representation of speech sounds

Question 9

Phonetics

Answer 9

study of how speech sounds are produced

transmitted and received

Question 10

phonology

Answer 10

study of sound systems of langauge

Question 11

Native speakers of a langauge do what?

Answer 11

They unconciously organize and represent groups of phones in the mind as ‘families’ each corresponding to a phoneme

Question 12

What is needed to discover the phonemes of a langauge

Answer 12

distribution of phones

intuitions of native speakers

Question 13

How are results stated

Answer 13

In sentences

and symbolically

Question 14

Do phoneticians listen to speech the same way that native speakers perceive it?

Answer 14

No; the listen to speech differently from how native speakers perceive it.

Question 15

Phoneticians have developed knowledge of __ and __ differences in speech sounds of the worlds languages and can __ and ___these differences using ___ and ____/

Answer 15

articulatory 
acoustic 
hear 
record
IPA
diacritics

Question 16

No matter what language phoneticians are working with they can what?

Answer 16

They can hear the differences in speech sounds that native speakers of the language either do not hear at all or simply do not notice because the differenced are not important to the language

Question 17

phonetic level

Answer 17

when phoneticians listen to speech and record all the acoustic and articulatory differences in speech sounds they can hear.

Question 18

Phoneticians transciption is a __ or __ transcription and is ___ in ____

Answer 18

phonetic
narrow
recorded
square brackets

Question 19

Phonemic level

Answer 19

how native speakers of a language normally process speech

Question 20

What differences do native speakers perceive?

Answer 20

differences between sounds that can change meaning in their language

Question 21

Theory explains what?

Answer 21

explains the connection between the sounds produced by the vocal apparatus (phones) and their representation in the mind (phonemes)