Phonology

Question 1

Phonetics

Answer 1

The study of speech sounds in isolation

Question 2

Phonology

Answer 2

The study of how speech sounds function in a context (syllable, word, sentence, language)

Question 3

Phonemes

Answer 3

smallest unit of speech sounds that can change a meaning
p/d/pat/etc
44 unique phonemes, arising from 26 letters used singly and combined. Substituting phonemes changes meaning
mall-ball-hall

Question 4

Phonetics

Answer 4

how individual speech sounds are produced and perceived

Question 5

Phonology

Answer 5

study the ways individual sounds are used to create larger units of meaning

Question 6

Phonological Rules

Answer 6

Ways sounds change depending on how and where they occur in speech

Question 7

grapheme

Answer 7

how to represent a phoneme using individual letters or groups of letters

Question 8

Digraph

Answer 8

two letters

tt in better

Question 9

onset

Answer 9

phoneme or sound that occurs at the beginning of a syllable. Only consonants. if syllable begins with vowel sound, then no onset.

Question 10

rime

Answer 10

vowel and any consonants that follow the onset. Every syllable has a rime, but not always an onset
and- no onset, only rime.
bat- /b/ onset /at/ rime

Question 11

Digraph

Answer 11

two or more letters that produce a unique phoneme

/ch/

Question 12

diphthong

Answer 12

combinations of two or more vowels in a single syllable …usually results in unpredictable sound.

Question 13

consonant cluster

Answer 13

two or more consonants combine to form a single sound

/wr/ wreck

Question 14

Improving Pronunciation skills

Answer 14

Use audio recordings to allow students to repeat a word after a native speaker and then replay the recording. Singing and choral reading, expose to modeled speech at appropriate level of phonetic complexity give opportunity to practice

Question 15

Prosidic featuers of language

Answer 15

differences in sound that can affect meaning 
pitch and (tone and intonation) and stress

Question 16

pitch

Answer 16

a difference in the frequency of the vibration of the vocal cords (low and high)

Question 17

tone

Answer 17

when you use pitch to distinguish between words

Question 18

intonation

Answer 18

if the pitch rises or falls over the course of a sentence

English uses this to distinguish between statement and question

Question 19

stress

Answer 19

difference in force applied to an element of speech
changing stress in a part of the word can change the meaning (con-VERT or CON-vert) or the sentence My SWEATER or MY sweater

Question 20

segmental

Answer 20

discrete identifiable speech segment that contributes sound ina sequential pattern (phonemes, syllables, diphthongs, blends)

Question 21

suprasegmental or Prosody

Answer 21

when phonetic properties are spread over a broad range of speech segments …not inherent

Question 22

phonetic inference

Answer 22

when a speaker’s L1 phonetics interfere with their learning of L2 phonetics.
Get around this by introducing a term in speech before in writing