Phonetics

Question 1

Phonology

Answer 1

The study of the sound system of a whole language

Question 2

What does phonology give an insight to?

Answer 2

Public attitudes towards language differences

Question 3

Trap bath split

Answer 3

Maths (maeth) vs bath (bAHth)

Question 4

TH-fronting

Answer 4

TH changes to F sound (thirty-> firty)

Question 5

Glottal stops

Answer 5

Misses “T”s (a bi. of bu..er)(a bit of butter)

Question 6

H-dropping

Answer 6

Losing the “H” (hill-> ill)

Question 7

Thought thaw split

Answer 7

Thought-> thaw
Taught-> tar

Question 8

L- vocalisation

Answer 8

When the “L” turns into a vowel and that vowel depends on the one before.

Question 9

Goose fronting

Answer 9

When the “OO” sound is pronounced very forward in the mouth
E.g. goose, food, huge, view

Question 10

Velar backing

Answer 10

“K” and “G” consonants are pronounced from the back of the mouth

Question 11

Yod- dropping

Answer 11

Syllables dropped
E.g. beauty= booty

Question 12

NG-coalescence

Answer 12

Words with a “G” pronounced heavily

Question 13

Square nurse merger

Answer 13

Fair= fur

Question 14

Ejectivisation

Answer 14

“P”, “T”,”K” sounds at the end of sentences are ejectives (not used)

Question 15

Phonemic alphabet

Answer 15

Used to represent each different sound

Question 16

Phonemes

Answer 16

Individual sounds

Question 17

Voiced phonemes

Answer 17

Involves vibrations of the vocal chords

Question 18

Unvoiced phonemes

Answer 18

No vibrations of the vocal chords

Question 19

Monophthong

Answer 19

An individual phoneme to represent a vowel sound
E.g. shEEp, On

Question 20

Diphthong

Answer 20

A phoneme with two adjacent vowel sound
E.g. wAIt, cOW, tOUrist

Question 21

Prosodics

Answer 21

The study of how we put sounds together in connected speech (rhythm, pitch, volume, intonation)

Question 22

Paralanguage/ paralinguistic language

Answer 22

The study of vocal effects (laughing) and non verbal communication (eye contact, facial expressions, gestures)