Definitions
What is Phonology?
The study of the sound features used in a language to communicate
Vowels are arranged into...?
Voiced and Unvoiced sounds.
What are voiced sounds?
Spoken using the vibration of our voice
What is a phoneme?
Is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to a meaning
The phonemes of a language are represented in...?
Writing by phonemic symbols, such as /i:/, /ai/
How many "stress" does a sentence has?
Two, primary or main stress and secondary stress
What is word stress?
When we say different parts of the sentence with more or less stress
What is the name of the chart where are the phonemes?
Phonemic Chart
What are unvoiced sounds?
Spoken without using our voice.
How is it called when we put the stress on an unexpected word in a sentence?
Contrastive stress
What can a phonemic symbol help to the reader?
To know exactly what the correct pronunciation is
What are some examples of content words?
Nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives
What is connected speech?
Spoken language in which all the words join to make a connected stream of sounds.
The chart groups sounds into...?
Vowels, consonants and diphthongs.
What are some examples of structure words?
Prepositions, articles, pronouns and determiners