Chapter 2 Speech Sounds.docx Chapter 2 Speech Sounds 1. What are the two major media of linguistic communication? Of the two, which one is primary and why? 2. What is voicing and how is it caused? 3. Explain with examples how broad transcription and narrow transcription differ? 4. How are the English consonants classified? 5. What criteria are used to classify the English vowels? 6. A. Give the phonetic symbol for each of the following sound descriptions: 1) voiced palatal affricate 2) voiceless labiodental fricative 3) voiced alveolar stop 4) front, close, short 5) back, semi-open, long 6) voiceless bilabial stop B. Give the phonetic features of each of the following sounds: 1) [ t ] 2) [ l ] 3) [?] 4) [w] 5) [?] 6) [?] 7. How do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? Who do you think will be more interested in the difference between, say, [l] and [?], [ph] and [p], a phonetician or a phonologist? Why? 8. What is a phone? How is it different from a phoneme? How are allophones related to a phoneme? 9. Explain with examples the sequential rule, the assimilation rule, and the deletion rule. 10. What are suprasegmental features? How do the major suprasegmental features of English function in conveying meaning?