Phonetics
What is phonetics?
The study of the creation and classification of sounds.
What is phonology?
The study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages.
What is morphology?
The study of words and how they relate to each other in a language.
Name three Germanic languages.
German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Yiddish
Look at the text below. What alphabet is being used in this text?
“Привет. Меня зовут Александр и я из России.”
Cyrillic
The word phonetics comes from what Greek root word meaning voice or sound?
Phon
The smallest unit of sound in a word.
What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of meaning in a word.
Name three romance languages.
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, Galician
What makes up a compound?
A word made up of two or more free compounds.
Where are the vocal folds located?
The Larynx
Separate the word "school" into its individual phoneme.
/ s / k / ōō / l /
What is a free morpheme?
A morpheme that can stand by itself.
Name two semitic languages.
Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Maltese, Tigrinya, Amharic
What is linguistics?
The scientific study of language.
Vibrations traveling through the air creating sound waves.
What is an aspiration?
The puff of air when saying a consonant.
What is a bound morpheme?
A morpheme that cannot stand by itself.
Look at the text bellow. What alphabet is being used in this text?
“Καλημέρα. Πώς είσαι?”
Greek
What is an open vowel?
A vowel produced with the tongue far from the roof of the mouth.
In English there are five true vowels. Of the five, which are front vowels?
A, E, I
What is metathesis?
The linguistic pattern of switching sounds or syllables in a word.
What are the free and bound morphemes in the word "unreplaceable"?
Bound: Un, Re
Free: Place, Able
What is the most common used alphabet across modern languages?
Latin
How are the sounds in human speech produced?
Air travels through the larynx causing the vocal folds to stretch and vibrate.