ENG507 Midterm Short Notes by MAS All Rounder

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Q. Define Linguistic.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It involves analysing language form, language meaning, and language in context. Linguists traditionally analyse human language by observing interplay between sound and meaning. In a very simple sense, ‘linguistics’ is the study of language.

Q. What are the aim and objective of the course Eng507?

Aim and objective of course are: understand how human sound is produced; know the physical properties of human sounds; study the suprasegmental features and features of the connected speech; have a greater awareness of IPA symbols and transcribe any kind of English text; prepare themselves for more advanced level course in Experimental Phonology for their detailed future research work; learn about the modern software used in phonological research.

Q. Differentiate vowel and consonant. Human sounds are divided into two broad categories: consonants and vowels. A consonant is a speech sound in which air is at least partly blocked whereas vowel is a sound in which there is no obstruction found and the air passes through the cavity freely.

Q. How we classify consonant?

A consonant is classified in terms of the places of articulation, manners of articulation and voicing.

Q. How we classify vowel?

Vowel is classified in terms of the position of tongue, the part of tongue and lip-rounding.

Q. Write down short vowel with examples

Short vowels ɪ pit e pet æ pat ʌ putt ɒ pot ʊ put ǝ another

Q. Write down long vowel with examples

iː bean ɑː barn ɔː born uː boon ɜː burn

Q. Write down Plosive sounds

P,b,t,d,k,g

Q. Write down fricative sounds

f , v , θ , ð , s , z , ʃ , ʒ , h

Q. Write down affricate with examples. ʧ chain ʤ Jane

Q. What are the approximants in English. l light r right w wet j yet

Q. Differentiate phonetics and phonology. Phonology is the study of the sounds of a particular language (e.g., English). In phonology, it matters whether sounds are contrastive or not, that is, whether substituting one sound for another gives a different, or "contrastive," meaning. Phonetics, as a discipline, is the study of human speech sounds. It includes the understanding of how sounds are articulated using mouth, nose, teeth and tongue, and how ears hear those sounds and can tell them apart. are three major types of phonetics: articulatory phonetics, acoustics phonetics and auditory There phonetics

Q. Define phoneme with suitable example. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound (therefore, a smallest unit in phonology) in a language and this meaningful unit of sound is one that will change one word into another word. For example, the difference in both ‘white’ and ‘right’ (ignore spellings here, focus on sounds) is the difference of sounds (w – r) which are phonemes and they have the ability to change meaning

Q. Define allophone?

An allophone is a definable systematic variant of a phoneme. Compare the following sets:

1. ‘s’ sound in words like sill, still and spill or in words like seed, steed and speed
2. ‘k’ sound in words like, key and car
3. ‘t’ sound in words like true and tea
4. ‘n’ sound in words like tenth and ten
5. Phone is a sound pattern having some acoustic features.

Q. Define Articulatory phonetics. Articulatory phonetics deals with studying the making of single sounds by the vocal tract. It is the branch of phonetics which studies the way in which speech sounds are made (‘articulated’) by the vocal