Phometics And Phonology

Question 1

Phonology

Answer 1

Study of how sounds are used in a language

Question 2

Phonetics

Answer 2

The actual sounds of speech, how they are made

Question 3

Phonemes

Answer 3

The basic units of sound from which language is created

Question 4

Plosives sounds

Answer 4

Made with an explosion of air being blocked (b,p,d,k,g)

Question 5

Fricatives

Answer 5

Air is released through the mouth in a trickle (f,v,s,z,sh,th)

Question 6

Affricatives

Answer 6

Two sounds close together,a plosives and a fricative (ch,dg)

Question 7

Nasals

Answer 7

Air is blocked in the mouth - instead air moves through the nose (m,n,ng)

Question 8

Approximates

Answer 8

Air is less restricted than fricatives. Tongue moves to make sounds (r,j,w)

Question 9

Lateral

Answer 9

Created by playing the tongue on the ridge of the mouth and moving air down the side of the moth (l)

Question 10

Voiced consonant

Answer 10

Voice box vibrates

Question 11

Unvoiced consonants

Answer 11

Voice box doesn’t vibrate (f,s)

Question 12

Dental Sounds

Answer 12

Made by your tongue meeting your upper teeth (th)

Question 13

Labio-dental

Answer 13

Lower lip meets upper teeth (f,v)

Question 14

Alveolar

Answer 14

Blade of the tongue meets the alveolar ridge (t,s’

Question 15

Velar

Answer 15

Back of the tongue meets soft palette (g,k)

Question 16

Glottal

Answer 16

Vocal cords come together to cause friction (h)

Question 17

Lexical onomatopoeia

Answer 17

Sounds that also have a meaning or function

Question 18

Non-lexical onomatopoeia

Answer 18

Sounds that don’t have a meaning/serve a lexical purpose

Question 19

Alliteration

Answer 19

Same sound at the beginning are used in a row

Question 20

Assonance

Answer 20

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 21

Consonance

Answer 21

Repetition of consonant sounds

Question 22

Sibilance

Answer 22

Repetition of s and sh sounds

Question 23

Sound symbolism

Answer 23

Closed vowel sounds like chip and little suggest smallness whereas open vowel like vast and grand suggest largeness

Question 24

Strong or weak forms

Answer 24

Some words will have different pronunciations depending on how they are stead -emphasised or said in isolation

Question 25

Elision

Answer 25

In rapid speech sounds may be elided, especially when they appear in a consonant cluster

Question 26

Assimilation

Answer 26

Sounds next to each other become more alike. Adjacent sounds often influence each other so they become assimilate, often happens in rapid speech so words are easier to say

Question 27

3 types of assimilation

Answer 27

Regressive/anticipatory - sound is influenced by the following sound Progressive - influenced by the preceding sound Coalescent/reciprocal - mutual influence or fusion

Question 28

3 types of assimilation

Answer 28

Regressive/anticipatory - sound is influenced by the following sound Progressive - influenced by the preceding sound Coalescent/reciprocal - mutual influence or fusion

Question 29

Liaison

Answer 29

A sound is inserted between words or syllables to help the. Run together more smoothly this is to avoid a gap between words called a hiatus

Question 30

Phonological manipulation

Answer 30

Sound is used to create humour - manipulation covers the way that text producers play with sounds for effect e.g what did the grape say when it was stepped on Nothing it just gave out a little wine

Question 31

Phonological substitution

Answer 31

Sound is used to create humour - manipulation covers the way that text producers play with sounds and meanings for effect e.g when do astronauts eat At launch time!

Question 32

Bilabial

Answer 32

Both lips involved

Question 33

Bilabial

Answer 33

Both lips involved