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