Introduction to the Study of Language I - Phonology

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Steop-Lecture of University of Vienna, English and American Studies, Part I: Phonetics
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Pregunta 1

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What is the subject of Articulatory Phonetics?
Respuesta
  • sound waves
  • perceiving of sound
  • production of sound

Pregunta 2

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What is the subject of Acoustic Phonetics?
Respuesta
  • sound waves
  • perception of sound
  • production of sound

Pregunta 3

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What is the subject of Auditory Phonetics?
Respuesta
  • perception of sound
  • sound waves
  • production of sound

Pregunta 4

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What are Articulators?
Respuesta
  • Way to pronounce vocals
  • People who check others pronunciation and correct them, if necessary
  • Parts of the vocal apparatus, which are involved in speech production.
  • A scientific method to analyze ones pronunciation.

Pregunta 5

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What are active articulators?
Respuesta
  • tongue
  • upper teeth
  • lips
  • lower jaw
  • hard palate

Pregunta 6

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Articulators can be split into two groups: active and passive articulators.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 7

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When is a speech sound voiced?
Respuesta
  • When the vocal folds are drawn together, the air from the lungs repeatedly pushes them apart as it passes through, creating a vibrating effect.
  • When the vocal folds are spread apart, the air from the lungs passes between them unimpeded.

Pregunta 8

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What's a voiceless sound?
Respuesta
  • [s] in Sue
  • [z] in zoo

Pregunta 9

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Place of articulation
Respuesta
  • used to describe sounds
  • denote the place of articulation of the sound
  • location inside the mouth at which the constriction of the passing air takes place

Pregunta 10

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What means 'bilabial'?
Respuesta
  • Sound formed using both upper and lower lips
  • slightly further back than the alveolar sounds, between the hard palate and the alveolar ridge
  • sound produced with the back of the tongue against the velum
  • sound formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip.

Pregunta 11

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'labiodental'?
Respuesta
  • slightly further back than the alveolar sounds- between the hard palate and the alveolar ridge
  • Sound formed using both upper and lower lips
  • sound formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip
  • sound produced with the tongue and the palate

Pregunta 12

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'palato-alveolar'?
Respuesta
  • slightly further back than the alveolar sounds- between the hard palate and the alveolar ridge
  • sound produced without the active use of the tongue and other parts of the mouth and an open glottis
  • Sound formed using both upper and lower lips

Pregunta 13

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'palatal'?
Respuesta
  • formed with the tongue tip behind the upper front teeth
  • sound produced with the tongue and the palate
  • slightly further back than the alveolar sounds- between the hard palate and the alveolar ridge

Pregunta 14

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'velar'?
Respuesta
  • sound formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip
  • sound produced with the tongue and the palate
  • sound produced with the back of the tongue against the velum

Pregunta 15

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'velar'?
Respuesta
  • sound formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip
  • sound produced with the tongue and the palate
  • sound produced with the back of the tongue against the velum

Pregunta 16

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'glottal'?
Respuesta
  • sound formed with the front part of the tongue on the alveolar ridge
  • sound formed with the upper teeth and the lower lip
  • sound produced with the tongue and the palate
  • sound produced without the active use of the tongue and other parts of the mouth and an open glottis

Pregunta 17

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Manner of articulation includes:
Respuesta
  • Plosives
  • Nasals
  • Affricatives
  • Flaps
  • Approximant
  • Glottal stop
  • Fricative

Pregunta 18

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"by the tongue tip tapping the alveolar ridge"?
Respuesta
  • Fricative
  • Flap
  • Nasal
  • Approximant

Pregunta 19

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"almost stop of the air stream and air push through the very narrow opening"?
Respuesta
  • Affricative
  • Fricative
  • Plosive
  • Nasal

Pregunta 20

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"sound produced by stopping the air stream then letting it go abruptly"?
Respuesta
  • Plosive
  • Flap
  • Affricative
  • Nasal

Pregunta 21

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"a combined brief stopping of the air stream with an obstructed release which causes some friction"
Respuesta
  • Plosive
  • Glottal stop
  • Nasal
  • Affricative

Pregunta 22

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"orally produced sound; when the velum is lowered and the air stream flows out through the nose"?
Respuesta
  • Nasal
  • Fricative
  • Glottal stop
  • Flap

Pregunta 23

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Criteria to describe Monophthong - vowels?
Respuesta
  • Vowel length (short, long)
  • Height (low, mid, high)
  • Voicing (voiceless, voiced)
  • Tongue position (front, central, back)
  • Position of lips (rounded vs. unrounded/apart)

Pregunta 24

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Are Monophthonges simple vowels with no change in quality?
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 25

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Which answers are correct regarding Diphthonges?
Respuesta
  • vowel sound where there is a change in auditory quality within a single syllable
  • vowels with no change in quality
  • They have a starting point and an end point.
  • You can differ between Closing and Opening Diphthonges
  • You can differ between Closing and Centering Diphtonges

Pregunta 26

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Which Diphthonges end in the high vowel? What are examples for them?
Respuesta
  • Closing Diphthonges
  • Centering Diphtonges
  • ei, ai
  • au, ou

Pregunta 27

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Centering vowels?
Respuesta
  • end in the high vowel
  • end with a central vowel
  • only in RP (=Received Pronunciation, only in BE)

Pregunta 28

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What does Received Pronunciation mean?
Respuesta
  • RG describes the standard accent of BE
  • RG describes the standard accent of North American English (NAE)

Pregunta 29

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What is the study of the abstract categories that organize the sound system of a language?
Respuesta
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology

Pregunta 30

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What are the segmental aspects of Phonology?
Respuesta
  • Features of pronunciation in a syllable
  • Function of individual sounds in a language

Pregunta 31

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What are the suprasegmental aspects of Phonology?
Respuesta
  • Features of pronunciation in a syllable
  • Function of individual sounds in a language

Pregunta 32

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Which sentences are correct?
Respuesta
  • Phoneme is a physical realization of a sound (f.i. the difference voiced or voiceless of the phoneme)
  • Phoneme is the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit in a language, by adding + or - it can be further described
  • Phone is a physical realization of a sound (f.i. the difference voiced or voiceless of the phoneme)
  • Phone is the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit in a language, by adding + or - it can be further described

Pregunta 33

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Which statements are correct?
Respuesta
  • Allophones are phonetically similar phones of a phoneme that do not distinguish meaning and are “regarded” as the same sound.
  • Allophones are constraints on the sequence or position of English phonemes. There are definite patterns in the types of sound combinations permitted in a language. The constraints operate on the syllable level.
  • Phonotactics are constraints on the sequence or position of English phonemes. There are definite patterns in the types of sound combinations permitted in a language. The constraints operate on the syllable level.
  • Phonotactics are phonetically similar phones of a phoneme that do not distinguish meaning and are “regarded” as the same sound.

Pregunta 34

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pat - bat- pet --> What is this?
Respuesta
  • A minimal pair
  • A minimal set
  • Neither

Pregunta 35

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Which statements are correct?
Respuesta
  • Aspiration is the puff of air, an aspirated phone is written with a raised a
  • Aspiration is the puff of air, an aspirated phone is written with a raised *
  • Aspiration is the puff of air, an aspirated phone is written with a raised h
  • Aspiration is the puff of air, an aspirated phone is written with a raised '

Pregunta 36

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The effect of the nasal consonant on a vowel is called...
Respuesta
  • Nazalisation
  • Nasalization
  • Nasalisation
  • Naselization
  • Nasallization
  • Nasalizetion

Pregunta 37

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What is a Minimal pair?
Respuesta
  • feed read
  • bat pat
  • two words with identical form except for a contrast in one phoneme occurring in the same position that changes the meaning
  • two words with identical form except for a contrast in two phonemes that changes the meaning

Pregunta 38

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A minimal set is a group of words that can be differentiated by changing two phonemes in the same position
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 39

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A minimal set is a group of words that can be differentiated by changing one phoneme in the same position
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 40

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What does [p'] mean?
Respuesta
  • It is a released consonant, the release of the air being built up
  • It is a unreleased consonant, there is no release of the air pressure

Pregunta 41

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Which one is right?
Respuesta
  • Complementary distribution= two sounds which are distributed in such a way that one can only occur where the other cannot occur
  • Complementary distribution= two sounds which are distributed in such a way that one can only occur where the other occurs

Pregunta 42

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Free variation means...
Respuesta
  • The user/speaker consciously chooses between two allophones
  • The user/speak unconsciously chooses between two allophones

Pregunta 43

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Which is right?
Respuesta
  • Neutralization means, a contrast between phonemes becomes invisible
  • Final devoicing means, a voiced phoneme having a unvoiced allophone in word-final position
  • Neutralization means, a voiced phoneme having an unvoiced allophone in word-final-position
  • Final devoicing means, a contrast between phonemes becomes invisible

Pregunta 44

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A syllable contains...
Respuesta
  • onset
  • nucleus
  • coda
  • rhyme

Pregunta 45

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A rhyme contains...
Respuesta
  • onset
  • nucleus
  • coda
  • rhyme

Pregunta 46

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What is a syllabic consonant?
Respuesta
  • A consonant that occupies the central part of the syllable. In phonetic transcription you mark them with a . under them.
  • A consonant that occupies the first part of the syllable. In phonetic transcription you mark them with a . under them.
  • A consonant that occupies the last part of the syllable. In phonetic transcription you mark them with a . under them.

Pregunta 47

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What is a open syllable?
Respuesta
  • The syllable misses the coda
  • The syllable misses the onset
  • The syllable misses the nucleus
  • The syllable has the onset and nucleus
  • The syllable has the nucleus and coda
  • The syllable has the onset and coda

Pregunta 48

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A closed syllable...
Respuesta
  • has got a coda and onset
  • has got a coda, onset and nucleus
  • has got neither of the three
  • has got only the coda

Pregunta 49

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Vowel epenthesis means the insertion of a vowel into syllables
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 50

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Consonant cluster: the onset or the coda consists of more than one consonant.
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 51

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CC means...
Respuesta
  • the 2nd position must be a liquid or a glide
  • the 1st consonant is a /s/, followed by a voiceless stop and a liquid or glide

Pregunta 52

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CCC is...
Respuesta
  • the 2nd position must be a liquid or a glide
  • the 1st consonant is a /s/, followed by a voiceless stop and a liquid or glide

Pregunta 53

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process of not pronouncing a sound segment that might be present in the deliberately careful pronunciation of a word in isolation?
Respuesta
  • Coarticulation
  • Elision
  • Assimilation

Pregunta 54

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process making one sound almost at the same time as the next sound?
Respuesta
  • Coarticulation
  • Elision
  • Assimilation

Pregunta 55

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two sound segments occur in sequence and some aspect of one segment is taken by the other?
Respuesta
  • Coarticulation
  • Elision
  • Assimilation

Pregunta 56

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What is right?
Respuesta
  • Syllabification = assigning syllable structure to words
  • Syllabification = assigning syllable structure to sentences
  • There is the maximal onset principle
  • There is the minimal onset principle
  • There is the phonology sequencing principle
  • There is the sonority sequencing principle

Pregunta 57

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Which principle is described: we prefer to syllabify consonants in an onset rather than in a coda -> as many consonants as possible end up in an onset
Respuesta
  • The maximal onset principle
  • The sonority sequencing principle

Pregunta 58

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Which principle is described: it claims that sounds preceding the nucleus must rise in sonority and sounds following the nucleus must fall in sonority
Respuesta
  • the maximal onset principle
  • the sonority sequencing principle

Pregunta 59

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Weak syllables...
Respuesta
  • contain full vowels and are unstressed
  • contain weak vowels and are unstressed
  • contain full vowels and are stressed
  • contain weak vowels and are stressed

Pregunta 60

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Strong syllables...
Respuesta
  • contain strong vowels and are unstressed
  • contain weak vowels and are unstressed
  • contain full vowels and are stressed
  • contain weak vowels and are stressed

Pregunta 61

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What describes: stressed syllables occur at regular intervals?
Respuesta
  • Rhythm
  • Stress-timed
  • Syllable-timed

Pregunta 62

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What describes: distribution of primary stresses in a longer stretch of speech?
Respuesta
  • Rhythm
  • Stress-timed
  • Syllable-timed

Pregunta 63

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What describes: syllables occur at regular intervals, stressed or unstressed?
Respuesta
  • Rhythm
  • Stress-timed
  • Syllable-timed

Pregunta 64

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What is right?
Respuesta
  • Pitch= auditory perception of frequency (high or low)
  • Intonation= rises and falls in pitch
  • Pitch = rises and falls in pitch
  • Intonation= auditory perception of frequency (high or low)
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