Chapter2 (Phonetics) The Sounds of Language(1 )(Exe. 2).docVIP

Exe. 2 Phonetics Ⅰ. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False: 1. Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chinese and English.（T） 2. In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. （T） 3. In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. （F） 4. Articulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph.（F） 5. The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important areas: the throat, the mouth and the chest. (T) 6. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing. (T) 7. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. (F) 8. According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar. (F) 9. Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels. (T) 10. According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified into close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels and open vowels. (F) Ⅱ. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given: 1. A_______ refers to a strong puff of air stream in the production of speech sounds. 2. Articulatory phonetics describes the way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ. 3. The four sounds /p/, /b/, /m/ and /w/ have one feature in common, i.e., they are all bilabial sounds. 4. Of all the speech organs, the tongue is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other. 5. English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of