Question 1

According to Linguists what are the two types of vowel sounds?

Accepted Answer

Monothongs and diphthongs

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Round and wide

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Tongue and Ridge

Question 2

What are the criteria employed by Linguists to describe vowels?

Accepted Answer

Height, backness, and roundness

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The articulators and segments

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Air constriction and sound waves

Question 3

What are some examples of tongue areas?

Accepted Answer

Tip, blade, and root

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Mid, high, and low

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Lax and tense

Question 4

What is the main difference between consonants and vowels?

Accepted Answer

In vowels, the flow of the air is free, whereas in consonants there is obstruction of the air in the oral track

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Vowels are phonologically less salient than consonants

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Vowels sounds deal with features, whereas consonants deal with features

Question 5

Why are glides, liquids, and nasal sounds similar to vowels?

Accepted Answer

There is no obstruction of the airflow

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They are pronounced with the same articulators

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They share the same segments

Question 6

What are phonemes?

Accepted Answer

The mental and abstract representation of speech sounds

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The sounds that are predictable and occur in context

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The sounds that occur in complementary distribution

Question 7

What are allophones?

Accepted Answer

The phonetic realization of a phoneme is predictable by its context and occurs in complementary distribution.

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The representation of sounds in our mind

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The psychological representation of acoustic sounds

Question 8

What are the three main components of a syllable?

Accepted Answer

Onset, coda, and Nucleus

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CVC, CV, VC, V and VCC

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Monosyllables, disyllable and polysyllables

Question 9

What is phonotactic knowledge?

Accepted Answer

The set of constraints on the permissible combination of sounds in a language, which is part of the speaker’s phonological knowledge.

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The set of rules that speakers learn in an explicit way through correction.

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The set of limitations that speakers identify once they learn how sounds are articulated

Question 10

Why is it important to be acquainted with syllable structure?

Accepted Answer

To distinguish from weak and strong syllables in terms of stress and syllable peak

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To identify the type of word sounds and parts of speech

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To identify the constituents of a syllable and its properties

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