Warm-up: AE-Phonology Review Questions

1. What are these called / / and what do they indicate? a._____________________ b._____________________
2. Allophones are surrounded by what symbols?_____________________.
3. Two phonetically similar segments are in complementary ___________________ when they never occur in the same phonetic environment.
4. A segment is a __ _________ sound..
5. If we have two "forms" and their pronunciation differs by only one segment in the same position, they are a minimal pair if their ____________________ are different.
6. T or F: Phonologists mainly study English because it's the "International Language".
7. T or F: To linguists, a native speaker's knowledge of phonology is part of the grammar of a language.
8. T or F: All sounds in a language contrast with each other.
9. T or F: All languages have the same number of phonemes.
10. T or F: English has about 44 phonemes (depending on the dialect), which is the same number of English sounds.
11. In English, the allophones of /p/ are predictable because ....
12. The study of the sounds found in languages and how humans make and hear these sounds is called __________________.
13. Native speakers of a language can easily hear the difference between [phonemes/allophones].
14. T or F: Vowel length is phonemic in English; that is holding a vowel for a longer or shorter time changes meaning.
15. T or F: Allophones are phonetically similar but distinct. They are phonologically the same.
16. How do you read this in English: C___________V?
17. How do you read this in English: ___________#?
18. How do you read this in English: #____________?
19. How do you read this in English: V'___________V?
20. How do you read this in English:_____________V?