Phonology Quiz

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  • Created by: ewelyn
  • Created on: 31-05-19 07:07
Define allophone
Different versions of the same phoneme
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What will substituting one phoneme for another result in?
A different word with a different meaning
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What will substituting one allophone for another result in?
Different pronunciations of the same word
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How is the presence of a feature in a phoneme represented in square brackets?
With a '+' before the feature
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What are different phonemes said to be if they share similar features?
Members of a natural class
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What are different phonemes said to be if they don't share similar features?
There is no meaning behind this occurence
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What is one possible explanation as to why some consonant clusters are more common and acceptable in English than other clusters?
The more common and acceptable consonant clusters are part of the same natural class of sounds
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What is an 'accidental' gap?
When a pattern of sounds create a form that aren't currently words but would be acceptable if given meaning
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Define elision
Dropping a phoneme from a word when speaking for efficiency
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Define assimilation
When the first or last phoneme of one word takes on a feature of the next or previous word in a sequence
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Define minimal pair
When two words are identical with the exception of one phoneme in the same place
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Define onset
The consonant that comes before the vowel / vowel-like sound in a syllable?
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Define rhyme
The part of a syllable that contains the nucleus and the coda
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What must a syllable contain?
A vowel or vowel-like sound
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What is the most common syllable?
Consonant-vowel (CV)
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What will substituting one phoneme for another result in?

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A different word with a different meaning

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What will substituting one allophone for another result in?

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Card 4

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How is the presence of a feature in a phoneme represented in square brackets?

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Card 5

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What are different phonemes said to be if they share similar features?

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