Which disciplines inform phonetics?
Physiology, acoustics, physics, psychology, medicine, sociology, anthropology, and linguistics inform phonetics.
Which ancient Greek philosophers developed ideas about pronunciation and speech sounds?
Plato and Aristotle.
What phonetic development occurred during the medieval period and Renaissance?
A phonetic alphabet was developed.
Which applied fields does phonetics include?
Speech psycho-acoustics, language pathology, language teaching, computing, speech synthesis and automatic recognition, and audiometry.
Which organs and processes does articulatory phonetics study?
The processes and organs involved in producing speech sounds, including the vocal cords and oral cavity.
What does the inner ear convert sound vibrations into during auditory perception?
Nerve signals.
Which pathway carries auditory nerve signals to the brain’s auditory center?
Through the medulla.
What does phonology study within particular language systems?
How sounds function and are organized.
What is the smallest distinctive sound unit in a language?
A phoneme.
What happens to the lips when pronouncing French [p]?
They come together, then open after air is expelled slightly from the lungs.
Answer 10 questions on Phonetics and Phonology.
1. Which linguist contributed to the creation of precise phonetic symbols during the emergence of scientific phonetics in the 19th century?
2. A linguistics team wants to use the standardized phonetic transcription system created by the association founded in 1886. Which system should it use?
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