| An alveolar-apical, constrictive, fricative, lateral sonant
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| A glottal, constrictive, fricative, fortis consonant phoneme
| /h/
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| A post-alveolar, constrictive, fricative, medial sonant
| /j/
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| A forelingual, palato-alveolar, constrictive, fricative, voiced, lenis consonant
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| /ʒ /
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| A lingual, backlingual, velar, occlusive, plosive nasal sonant
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| A labial, bilabial, constrictive, fricative, medial sonant
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| A lingual, backlingual, occlusive, plosive, voiceless, fortis consonant phoneme
| /k/
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| A lingual, forelingual, post-alveolar, constrictive, fricative, medial sonant
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| A forelingual, interdental, constrictive, fricative, voiceless, fortis consonant
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| /θ /
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| A voiceless affricate
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| /tʃ /
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| How many consonant phonemes re there in RP?
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| Baudouin de Courtenay
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| Features of phonemes involved in the differentiation of the words are called …
| distinctive/relevant
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| Allophones that are free from the influence of the neighbouring sounds and are
| typical or principal and subsidiary
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| Allophones which appear as a result of the influence of the neighbouring speech
| positional and combinatory
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| sounds (assimilation, adaptation, accommodation) are called …
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| What is the principal function of the phoneme?
| Constitutive
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| The articulatory features which do not serve to distinguish meaning are called …
| nondistinctive, irrelevant or redundant
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| The ability to produce English with an English-likepattern of stress and rhythm
| stress-timing (the placement of stress on selected syllables)
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| Modifications of a consonant under the influence of a neighbouring consonant are
| Assimilation/
reduction.
oppositions
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| A deletion of a sound in rapid or careless speech is termed …
| Elision/ellipsis.
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| Connecting of the final sound of one word or syllable to the initial sound of the next
| linking (or liaison)
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| Modifications of a consonant under the influence of the adjacent vowel or vice versa
| adaptation or accommodation
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| Inserting of a vowel or consonant segment within an existing string of segments is
| Epenthesis
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| The process when two syllables, usually both weak, optionally become one is called
| Compression
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| According to the degree the assimilating C takes on the characteristics of the
| partial, total
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| What are the most common types of assimilation in English?
| anticipatory (or regressive)
Progressive, regressive and reciprocal
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| What type of assimilation occurs in the contractions it’s, that’s
| Progressive assimilation
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| What is the name of assimilation in which the first consonant and the second
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| consonant in a cluster fuse and mutually condition the creation of a third consonant
| Coalescent (RECIPROCAL) assimilation.
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| with features from both original consonants?
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| Give an example of affricatization.
| The English sounds spelled " ch" and " j" (broadly transcribed as [t͡ ʃ ] and [d͡ ʒ ] in the IPA). The voiceless affricate is [tʃ ] as in chain, whereas [dʒ ],
as in jelly, is voiced.
This assimilation occurs most frequently when final alveolar Cs [t], [d] are followed by initial palatal [j].
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| Linking and intrusive r are special cases of …
| juncture
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| Define the type of assimilation in ten mice [tem mais]
| Total assimilation
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| “Glottalizing” may be used as an allophone of the phoneme …
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| Name the phenomenon occurring in the pronunciation of button ['b٨ tə n] – ['b٨? n]
| T-glottalization
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| Name the phenomenon occurring in the pronunciation of camera ['kæ mə rə ] –
| Elision of [ə ] (the vowel before letter r is not stressed. )
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