Phonology

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

The sound of our voices

Question 2

Received Pronunciation

Answer 2

The type of accent that has upper class associations (eg. Boris Johnson, The King, Hugh Grant)

Question 3

Glottal Stop

Answer 3

Missing the /t/ sound in words and replacing it with a burst of air (eg. bu’‘er instead of butter)

Question 4

Prosodic Features

Answer 4

The tone, pitch, volume, stress, intonation of our voices

Question 5

Spoonerisms

Answer 5

Verbal error in which the speaker accidentally mixes the sounds of two or more words (eg. Lack of pies rather than pack of lies)

Question 6

Ellision

Answer 6

Slurring sounds (eg. Gonna, wanna, d’ya)

Question 7

Deletion

Answer 7

Dropping phonemes from words (eg. Goin’ rather than going)

Question 8

Schwa Vowel

Answer 8

/ə/ vowel which sounds like ‘uh’

Question 9

Alveolar Nasal

Answer 9

The /n/ sound such as ‘nose’

Question 10

Velar Nasal

Answer 10

The ‘ing’ sound /ŋ/ such as ‘dancing’

Question 11

Alveolar Plosives

Answer 11

The /t/ and /d/ phonemes (eg. ‘Teeth’ and ‘dog’)

Question 12

Phoneme

Answer 12

The individual sounds in our language. Smallest unit of sound. Coded via //

Question 13

Glottal Fricatives

Answer 13

The /h/ sound, such as the word ‘home’

Question 14

Dental fricatives

Answer 14

The ‘th’ sounds coded as /θ/ and /ð/ found in words like ‘birTHday’, ‘think’ /θ/ (unvoiced) and ‘THis’ and ‘THose’ /ð/ (voiced)

Question 15

Labiodental Fricatives

Answer 15

/f/ /v/

Question 16

Utterance

Answer 16

Spoken sentence

Question 17

Monophthong vowel

Answer 17

Vowels that stay in one position

Question 18

Diphthong vowel

Answer 18

Moving vowel

Question 19

Assonance

Answer 19

Repeated vowel sounds (eg. hOW nOW brOWn cOW)

Question 20

Rhoticity

Answer 20

Elongated /r/ and /ɜː/ phoneme in words like ‘farrrmerrr’

Question 21

Phonology

Answer 21

The patterns of sounds in a language

Question 22

Onomatopoeia

Answer 22

Words that sound like the thing they are referring to (eg. Buzz, bang, crash)

Question 23

Alliteration

Answer 23

Describes the series of words in quick succession that all start with the same sound

Question 24

Accent features

Answer 24

Using a character’s natural idiolect in this way could add a more authentic feel to the narrative and hint the character’s background

Question 25

Sibilance

Answer 25

Use the alveolar fricative /s/ and post alveolar fricative /sh/ as a form of alliteration

Question 26

Cacophony

Answer 26

Use of words and phrases that imply strong harsh sounds within the phrase (eg. Pounded)

Question 27

Homophones

Answer 27

Words that sound the Shane but have different meanings (eg. To, two, too)

Question 28

Alveolar Fricatives /s/ /z/

Answer 28

Sounds that are produced by airflow through a narrow channel formed by the tongue at the alveolar ridge

Question 29

Post-alveolar Fricatives // //

Answer 29

Sounds produced with a ‘sh’ or ‘zh’ quality, made by positioning the tongue close to the palette

Question 30

Assimilation

Answer 30

Process of sounds changing to be more like neighbouring sounds (eg. Bless you —> bleSHyou)