Linguistic Test 5

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

Signification

Pointer

Marker

Signifier

The scientific study of sound and sound waves

Phonemics

Phonology

Acoustics

Phonetics

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

Acoustic phonetics

Auditory phonetics

None of the above

Articulatory phonetics

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

Signification

Signifier

Marker

Pointer

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

Place of articulation

Airstream mechanism

Articulation process

Manner 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

Constriction

Reduction

Broadening

Narrowing

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

Phonetic organs

Acoustic organs

Auditory organs

Articulatory organs

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

Complementary settings

Acoustic settings

Articulatory settings

Auditory settings

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

Taboo

Conditional

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