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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
انا ادرس المادة عند طارق سيده
إن شاء الله تفيدكم هذه التعاريف والاسئلة

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A phoneme is the smallest meaning-distinguishing sound in
a language.

An allophone is a variant of the same phoneme.

A minimal pair is two or more words which are identical in
form except for a contrast in o¬ne phoneme in the same position
in each word - e.g, 'bad' and 'mad' are a minimal pair.

Phonotactics is the permitted arrangement of sounds in
a language.

Assimilation is the process whereby a feature of o¬ne sound
becomes part of another during speech production.

Elision is the process of omitting a sound segment in the
pronunciation of a word - e.g., omitting [d] in "friendship."




1-Which property of human language enables people to talk about the past and future
Arbitrariness
Productive
Displacement
Duality
2-If an infant born to korean parents in korea is adopted and brought up from birth by english speakers in the united states, what language will he or she inevitably speak
English and korean
English only
Korean only
None of the above
3-The process whereby a language is passed on from one generation to the next is described as
Productivity
Duality
Cultural borrowing
Cultural transmission

4-What is the general study of the characteristics of speech sounds called
Speech articulation
Phonology
Phonetics
Phonotactics
The initial sounds in the words pat, bat and mat are all 5-
Bilabials
Glottals
Labiodentals
Palatals
6-The initial sounds in top, dip, sit, zoo and nut are all
Velars
Alveolars
Glottals
Labiodentals
7-When we use terms like (affricate) or(nasal) to describe sounds, we are actually describing their
Manner of articulation
Place of articulation
Aspiration
Nasalization
The sounds (f), (v), and (z) are described as 8-
Liquids
Glides
Fricatives
Affricates
The sounds (aj) as in buy, eye, me is called a 9-
Fricative
Diphthong
Vowel
Glide
In contrast to consonant sounds, vowel sounds are 10-
All typically voiceless
Basically glottal
Articulated via obstruction in the vocal tract
Produced with a relatively free flow of air