Phonemes

Question 1

[___]

Answer 1

Some particular phone or set/series of phones.

A phone is an individual and particular sound

Question 2

[a]

Answer 2

Sounds like but, nut, cut, bitter

Front-central
Open
Un-rounded vowel

Question 3

[e]

Answer 3

Sounds like bet, wet, cigarette, lead (metal), read (past tense), red

Front
Close-mid
Un-rounded vowel

Question 4

[b]

Answer 4

Sounds like bat, bike, nebula

Voiced
Bilabial
Plosive

Question 5

[p]

Answer 5

Sounds like pale, pin, pit

Voiceless
Bilabial
Plosive (stop)

Question 6

[s]

Answer 6

Sounds like snake, cast, clasp, kiss (not cars or please)

Voiceless
Alveolar
Fricative

Question 7

[w]

Answer 7

Win, will, beware

Voiced
Labial-velar ?
Approximant

Question 8

[j]

Answer 8

Yell, yes

Voiced
Palatal
Approximant

Question 9

/_/

Answer 9

This is a phoneme, the general category of similar individual sounds or phones.
Eg /b/ might contain the phones [b], [B], and [p].

Languages usually don’t distinguish between phones belonging to the same phoneme
(There are tests to determine if a phone is part of one set but that’s in another deck)

Phonemes are the conventional labels for a particular group of phones (grouping varies between languages and dialects)

Question 10

[t]

Answer 10

Tattoo, tap, pat

Voiceless
Alveolar
Plosive

Question 11

[d]

Answer 11

Dad, paddle

Voiced
Alveolar
Plosive

Question 12

[k]

Answer 12

Cat, pack, kitchen

Voiceless
Velar
Plosive

Question 13

[g]

Answer 13

Get, giddy, pig (not gin)

Voiced
Velar
Plosive

Question 14

[m]

Answer 14

Mad, mum, bemused

Voiced
Bilabial
Nasal

Question 15

[n]

Answer 15

Nasal, mean, mooned, meaning

Voiced
Alveolar
Nasal

Question 16

[n,]♑️

Answer 16

Sing, bang, bank, tranquil

Voiced
Velar
Nasal

Question 17

[f]

Answer 17

Fun, photo, cough, graph

Voiceless
Labiodental
Fricative

Question 18

[v]

Answer 18

Very, veneer, believe

Voiced
Labiodental
Fricative

Question 19

[⛔️]

Answer 19

Thistle, pith, path

Voiceless
Dental
Fricative

Question 20

[➰]

Answer 20

That, this, bath, bathe, the

Voiced
Dental
Fricative

Question 21

[z]

Answer 21

Cars, please, bees

Voiced
Alveolar
Fricative

Question 22

[r]

Rotated 180

Answer 22

Carry, run, rest (not par, cur)

Voiced
Alveolar
Approximant

Question 23

[,|’]

Answer 23

Shin, pash, passion, cosh

Voiceless
Post alveolar
Fricative

Question 24

[3]

Answer 24

Jus, fusion

Voiced
Post alveolar
Fricative

Question 25

[h]

Answer 25

Hat, hurry, perhaps

Voiceless
Glottal
Fricative

Question 26

[l]

Lion

Answer 26

Large, pull, pillow

Voiced
Alveolar
Approximant

Question 27

[I]

Imogen

Answer 27

Hit, bib, crib

Front
Close
Un-rounded vowel

Question 28

[i:]🔻🔺

Answer 28

Bee, see, eat, Eden, eve

Front
Close
Un-rounded vowel

Question 29

[e]🔄

Answer 29

Central
Mid ?
Unrounded vowel

Question 30

[c]🔄

Answer 30

Back
Open-mid
Rounded vowel

Question 31

[ae]

Answer 31

Pat, back, apple

Front ?
Open ?
Un-rounded vowel

Question 32

[a]🔄

Answer 32

Central
Open ?
Un-rounded vowel

Question 33

[o:]🔻🔺

Answer 33

Back
Close-mid
Rounded vowel

Question 34

[E] £

Answer 34

Pert, hurt, lurch, search? Curt

Central
Open-mid
Un-rounded vowel

Question 35

[⛎]🔻🔺

Answer 35

Boot, hoot, lute

Central
Close
Rounded vowel

Question 36

[♈️]

Answer 36

Put?

Back
Close
Un-rounded vowel

Question 37

[d3] £

Answer 37

Jab, judge, grudge, djinn, gin

Question 38

[t,|’]

Answer 38

Chin, chat, church

Voiceless

Question 39

[e:] 🔻🔺

Answer 39

Air, care, pear, lair, Sarah

Question 40

[aeI]

Answer 40

Bay, tray, ale,

Diphthongs

Question 41

[Ie] 🔄

Answer 41

Here, clear, tear, peer (weary?)

Diphthong

Question 42

[o,e]

o = a

Answer 42

Buy, sky, rye, kite

Diphthong

Question 43

[oI]

Answer 43

Boy, toy, soy, cloying, hoist, moisture

Diphthong

Question 44

[aec] 🔄

Answer 44

How, brown, sour, cloud, found

Diphthong

Question 45

[e⛎] 🔄

Answer 45

Go, low, sew, roan, tone, loan

Diphthong