第三章lingusitics——phonology.pptVIP

Exercises: Ⅰ. True or False 1. Phonetics studies the phonic medium of a certain language. ( ) 2. The long vowels are all tense vowels and the short vowels are all lax vowels. ( ) 3. In English, pill and bill are a minimal pair, and so are pill and till, pin and ping. ( ) 4. The phoneme /p/ and /b/ can occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, therefore they’re in phonetic complementary distribution. ( ) 5. The sequential rules in English can apply to all the other languages. For example, the velar nasal /N/ never occurs in the initial position in English n