Week 2 - intro to phonetics

Question 1

What is a Phone?

Answer 1

Sound produced by a speaker

Question 2

What is a Phoneme?

Answer 2

Phoneme is what is decoded by the listener is their brain - what is heard, discriminated and interpreted

Question 3

What is Phonology?

Answer 3

Study of patterns and rules of phonemes

Question 4

What are Phonetics?

Answer 4

Study of the sounds of phones make in their vocal tracts - just the sound not the rules

Question 5

What is Acoustic Phonetics?

Answer 5

Concerned with the physical properties of the sounds produced

Question 6

What is Articulatory Phonetics?

Answer 6

Concerned with how the organs of speech are involved in the production of sounds

Question 7

What is Irregular Language?

Answer 7

• No close letter-sound relationship as some letters unpredictable - G can be gee soft or hard sound

Question 8

IPA?

Answer 8

The International Alphabet - symbols representing phones of spoken language

Question 9

How many consonants, vowels and diphthongs in UK English?

Answer 9

24 Consonants
12 Vowels
8 Diphtongs

Question 10

3 way description of Consonants?

Answer 10

Voice, Place, Manner

Question 11

Voice

Answer 11

• More/less vocal fold vibration

Question 12

Place

Answer 12

• where in the mouth the airway is obstructed
  e.g. bilabial

Question 13

Manner

Answer 13

• how in the mouth the airway is obstructed
  e.g. plosive