LLCM10AN English Phonetics 2007-2008 Revision questions Introduction 1. Accents and dialects? 2. What does RP stand for? What is it? What about GA? 3. Give at least 3 differences between French and English? The Speech Chain 4. Conditions (participants and ...)? 5. Then 3 other conditions represented by 3 French verbs? 6. The 7 stages? Organs of speech 7. The organs of speech can be grouped into 3 categories which correspond with 3 functions in speech production. What are these 3 functions? 8. Give at least one organ from each of the 3 categories. 9. What is the glottis? 10. Difference between the hard palate and the soft palate? 11. What is the function of the velum in speech production? 12. What are the functions of the vocal folds in speech? 13. Correct the following statements if necessary and explain why: the vocal folds become shorter and shorter when you raise pitch; the vocal folds are put close together when you breathe in. Consonants 14. Vowels and consonants? 15. The 3 main properties of consonants? 16. 'Put your lips together. Let the air escape through your nose. Make your vocal folds vibrate.' Symbol? Voice, place, manner? 17. 'Touch your top teeth with your bottom lip, and breathe out. Don’t make your vocal folds vibrate.' Symbol? Voice, place, manner? 18. 'Put the front of your tongue against the bump behind your teeth. Let the air pass out through the side(s) of your tongue. Make your vocal folds vibrate.' Symbol? Voice, place, manner? 19. What consonant(s) do these figures represent? Place, manner, phonetic symbol?

20. When you pronounce /f/ /s/ /v/ /z/, what happens at the following 3 levels: initiation, phonation, and articulation? 21. How can we feel (and hear) the vibration of your vocal folds? (2 ways)

22. Difference between /l/ and /r/? Position of the tongue tip? 23. Difference between fricatives and approximants? 24. Difference between /m/ and /b/? /n/ and /d/? 25. Plosives: how many phases? 26. Affricates: the two components (phases)? 27. Are the word-initial consonant of 'these' and that of 'thief' same or different? If different, how? How do you know the difference? 28. How many place(s) of articulation does /w/ have? What is it / are they? Vowels 29. Articulatory characteristics of vowels? 30. Who is the 'father' of the Cardinal Vowels? 31. 3 axes of classification of vowels? 32. You pronounce the vowel /i/ in French, as in 'lit'. Then you round your lips. What vowel do you obtain? Give a French word containing this vowel. 33. Give three English words ending in //. If it is not possible, explain why. Transcription - From sound - From spelling