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Voiced bilabial stop 

What is /b/?

100

/d'o͡ʊnʌt/

 

What is "doughnut"? 

100

English orthography is...

What is "bad"? 

100

In addition to a popular type of beer, the acronym IPA stands for this notation system that is used to show how different words are pronounced.

 

What is the International Phonetic Alphabet? 

100

/dɹˈægən/

What is "dragon"?

200

High front vowel

What is /i/?

200

/kˈɔfi/

What is "coffee"?

200

spˈit͡ʃ

lˈæŋgwɪd͡ʒ

pæˈɑləd͡ʒi

What is "speech language pathology"? 

200

True or False: all languages have the same phonemic inventory. 

What is False? 

200

/lˈa͡ɪbɹɛɹi/

What is "library"?
300

Voiceless alveolar stop

What is /t/?

300

/bˈe͡ɪgə͡lz/

What are "bagels"?

300

Every consonant phoneme is produced with these three facets of articulation: 

What are place, manner, and voicing? 

300

The International Phonetic Alphabet was first published in this year.

What is 1888?

300

/flˈɝɪʃ/

What is "flourish"? 

400

Voiced bilabial nasal

What is /m/?

400

/pˈæŋke͡ɪk/

What is "pancake"?

400

Frequently used when transcribing disordered speech, these markings are used in narrow transcription to indicate pronunciation. 

What are diacritics? 

400

A form of language particular to a specific region or social group distinguished by differences in lexicon (vocabulary), grammar (morphology, syntax), and pronunciation (phonology, including prosody). 

What is a dialect? 

400

/θ'i͡əɾɚ/ 

(or, /θitɚ/)

What is "theatre"?

500

Voiced alveolar liquid (also known as a lateral approximant) 

What is /l/?

500

/ˈɔɹɪnd͡ʒ d͡ʒˈuːs/

What is "orange juice"?

500

While motor speech production errors constitute an articulation disorder, this language disorder is a simplification of the sound system that also affects intelligibility (i.e. it is associated with organizing the patterns of sound in the brain) 

What is a phonological process disorder? 

500

Diadochokinetic rate—a test used to determine how quickly a person can accurately repeat a series of rapid, alternating phonetic sounds—is typically measured using which three sounds? 

What is /pʌ tʌ kʌ/? 

("puh-tuh-kuh") 

500

/sˌɛɹəndˈɪpɪɾi/

What is "Serendipity"?