Linguistic Test 5

The different parts of the vocal tract that can change the shape of the air flow

Acoustic organs

Phonetic organs

Articulatory organs

Auditory organs

The term refers to the characteristic or long-term positioning of articulators by individual or groups of speakers of a particular language

Articulatory settings

Complementary settings

Acoustic settings

Auditory settings

Any characteristic of speech which conveys information about the personal characteristics of the speaker: sex, age, social class, mood, etc

Marker

Signifier

Signification

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The scientific study of sound and sound waves

Phonemics

Phonetics

Acoustics

Phonology

The parameter which treats differences in the activity of the vocal organs

Articulation process

Airstream mechanism

Manner of articulation

Place of articulation

A narrowing or closure of the vocal tract at some particular point during an articulation by the movement of the organs of articulation

Broadening

Narrowing

Constriction

Reduction

Any piece of morphological material with an identifiable function: for example, English -s is a symbol of plurality

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Signification

Signifier

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A rhyme between two words which are stressed on the final syllable: keen/mean; rain/remain; interfere/appear

Masculine rhyme

Terminal rhyme

Neutral rhyme

Feminine rhyme

Any statement, in some particular framework or description, which prohibits some derivation, process, structure or combination of elements which would otherwise be allowed

Phonotactics

Constraint

Conditional

Taboo

The branch of phonetics which deals with the physical characteristics of the sound waves which carry speech sounds between mouth and ear.

Articulatory phonetics

Auditory phonetics

Acoustic phonetics

None of the above

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