Phonology Flashcards
What do the symbols represent in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
These symbols represent speech sounds.
English sounds can be split into two areas based on how the sounds are produced: _____ and ________.
consonant sounds and vowel sounds
Phonemes represent the ____ units of ______ in a language.
A. largest, sound
B. sound, study
C. smallest, sound
D. sound, individual
C. smallest, sound
Phonemes represent the smallest unit of sound in a language.
What part of consonant articulation shows “how the air stream is constricted”?
A. Place of Articulation
B. Manner of Articulation
B. Manner of Articulation
Identify the number of phonemes in the word “sweet”.
4
The easiest aspect of phonological awareness is:
a. phonemic awareness
b. sentence segmentation
c. syllabification
d. phoneme manipulation
b. sentence segmentation
What do these two sounds have in common: [f] and [h]?
a. They are both bilabial.
b. They are both plosives.
c. They are both labio-dental.
d. They are both fricatives.
A: They are both fricatives.
Asking a child to tell you what word they hear when you produce the sounds [h] pause [æ] pause [t] is an example of what phonological awareness activity?
Phoneme blending
The phoneme [ŋ] has what kind of manner of articulation?
Palatal
Velar
Glottal
Alveolar
Velar
Is the sound given to the letters “ch” in the word “chalk” voiced or voiceless?
Voiceless
How would we describe the pronunciation of the phoneme [b]?
Voiced, bilabial, stop
What do these two sounds have in common [t] and [d]?
A: They are both stops.
B: They are palatal.
C: They are both liquids.
D: None of the above.
A: They are both stops.
Which one of the following does a syllable in English NOT have to have?
A. Vowel
B. Onset
C. Nucleus
D. Rhyme
B. Onset
Write the word “fire” in IPA?
[faɪər]
Which of the following best describes what these sounds have in common: [ p, f, t, s, k]?
A. They’re all fricative
B. They’re all voiced
C. They’re all voiceless
D. They’re all bilabial
C. They’re all voiceless
