1. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds.

Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural language.
Morphology: the study of the structure of words.
2. There are 3 ares of phonetics? Three main areas
*Articulatory phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds.
Articulatory phonetics deals with how speech sounds are articulated using articulators.
*Auditory phonetics deals with the perception of speech sounds.
Auditory phonetics deals with how speech sounds are perceived by listeners
3. What is the combination of the vocal folds and the space between the folds? Glottis /h/
Bilabial: two lips: Upper lip and Lower lip : [b, d, m, w]
Dental: Teeth ridge and Tongue lip: [ð, θ]
Labio-dental: Upper teeth and Lower lip: [f, v]
Alveolar: Tongue and alveolar ridge: [t, d, n, s, z, l, r]
Palatal: Hard Palate and Front : [j]
Palato-Alveolar: Behind alveolar/ Alveolar ridge and Tongue blade [ʧ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ]
Velar: Soft palate and Tongue back [k, g,  /η/, w]
4. What is a thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth?
Hard palate
5. Which of the following articulators gets involved in producing the sound /m/? Lips
6. Which of the following articulators gets involved in producing the sound /k/? Velum
7. How are the phonemes in a language established?
Phonemes are based on spoken language and may be recorded with special symbols, such as
those of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
8. What is a minimal pair? Give examples
Minimal pair is when two different forms are similar in every way except for one segment,
the two words.
What is a distinctive feature? Give example?
The distinctive feature are the distinguish/ contrast between two different phonemes.
9. What are allophones? Give examples
Allophones are the variants of a phoneme in pronunciation.
EX: The phoneme /p/ in peak and speak:
-   peak: [phi:k]
-   speak: [spi:k]
10.Provide examples of mininal pairs with:
a. /b/-/p/ in the initial position
Beach and Peach
 /biːtʃ/  /piːtʃ/
Beat and Peat
/biːt/  /piːt/
b. /ʊ/ -/u:/ in the middle position
full fool
/fʊl/ /fuːl/
 c. /s/-/z/ in the final position
bus buzz
/bʌs/ /bʌz/
11.Indicate the distinctive features represented in the following minimal pairs:
a. Sit and seat
/sɪt/ /siːt/
b. Man and mad
/mæn/ /mæd/
c. Rope and robe
/rəʊp/ /rəʊb/
d. Fine and vine
/faɪn/ /vaɪn/
12.Indicate if the following statement are true (T) or false (F)
a. /p/ is pronounced exactly the same in PEAK as in SPEAK
b. When a feature distinguishes one word from another. It is a distintive feature
phonemes
c. /t/ is pronounced exactly the same in TEA as in EAT
d. When a feature distinguishes one phoneme from another, it is a distinctive feature.
e. When two different forms are similar in every way except for the first sound segment,
the two words are called a minimal pair. One
13. How many voiced plosive sounds are there? What are they?
Three . /b/, /d/, /g/
14.*Which criteria cannot used to distinguish vowels in English?
Voicing
Place of articulation
Which criteria can used to distinguish vowels in English?
Lip rounding
*Which criteria can be used to distinguish consonants in English?
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
Voicing (voiced and voiceless)
Oral/nasal
15.Voiceless sound can be found in Fricative, stops consonants
Voiceless sound cannot be found in Nasals
16.Which of the following has a syllabic consonant? Bottle
17.The process in which a sound segment is deleted from the existing string of sounds:
Elision
A sound segment is inserted within an existing string of sounds: Epenthesis
A sound segment is influenced and changes: Assimilation
18. Voicing is articulated with the vibration of vocal cords.
Voiceless is articulated without the vibration of vocal cords.
19. GREEN house is a Compound noun
green HOUSE (non-compound)
20.*The dive (rise tune) intonation is used in: câu nói ko đầy đủ, câu hỏi thay thế
Do you like tea or coffee?
Did you watch the show on TV last night?
*The intonation used in the sentence “ Do you like English?” is Glide up
Glide up: yes/no questions, câu yêu cầu lịch sự
* Glide down: câu hỏi đuôi
21.The sound /u:/ is a _____ vowel
22. The process in which the change of a sound segment is brought about by the preceding
sound: Progressive assimilation
The change of a sound segment is brought about by the following sound
Regressive assimilation
23.Which of the following doesn’t contain an aspirated sound? /h/
24.Which of the following is not a minimal pair? Crews-cruise
25.The rhyme of a syllable consists of_____
Nucleus and coda
26.Features are the smallest phonological units used to build up the segment
27.Which of the following contains a syllabic consonant?
Man /mæn/
Trong trường hợp này, một phụ âm đứng ở vị trí trung tâm của âm tiết thay vì nguyên âm.
28. *Velars are sounds made at the soft palate/area toward the rear of the roof of the mouth.
29. The fricatives are consonants produced with a continuous airflow through the mouth.
The fricatives are consonants produced with the complete stoppage of the air in the mouth
which causes explosion.
The fricatives are continuant consonants.
30. Vowels: are syllabic, sonorous, are produced with little obstruction.
31. Glides are called semi – vowels or semi – consonants because:
a. They can function as a consonant.
b. They are articulated like vowels
c. They show properties of both vowels and consonants
d. All of the above
32. A stop consonant is a speech sound which is produced by stopping the airstream from
the lung and suddenly releasing it.
33. Segment:
+ smallest unit of sound pattern
+ can combine to make syllable
34. The stops are consonants produced with the complete stoppage of the air in the mouth
which causes explosion.
35. Assimilation is the process of changing to sound to become alike its neighbouring sound.
* Manner:
+ Stop (plosives): [p, t, k, b, d, g ]
+ Affricates: [ʧ,dʒ]
+ Fricatives: [, θ, f, v, z, s, ∫, Ʒ,h]
+ Nasals: [m, n, ŋ]
+ Lateral: [l]
+ Approximants: [w, j, r]
* High vowels: [i:, I, u:, υ]
+ Mid vowels: [e, з:, ә, o:]
+ Low vowels: [æ, a:, o, ]
+ Front vowels: [i:, I, e, æ]
+ Central vowels: [з:, ∂, ]
+ Back vowels: [, u:, a:, o, o:]
+ Rounded vowels: [o:, o, u:, ]
+ Unrounded vowels: [i:, I, e, a:, æ, ∂, ]
+ Tense vowels: [i:, a:, o:, u:, з:]
+ Lax vowels: [I, e, æ, o, , , ∂]

*DIPHTHONGS: [ei], [oi], [ai], [a], [ә], [ә], [iә], [ei]