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True or false? - There are three sounds in the word 'bought'.
TRUE
What is a phoneme?
The smallest distinctive linguistic unit of speech.
Pronounce the words 'pie' and 'bye'.
Aspiration in 'pie'.
Provide the phonemic transcription of the word 'bet'.
/bet/
Provide the phonetic transcription for the word 'bet'.
[b̥ět]
True or false? - The word 'import' has only one meaning.
FALSE.
Provide the phonemic transcription for the word 'knife'.
/naɪf/
Provide the phonemic and phonemic transcription for the word 'eat'.
[iˑt] - /iːt/
The different realisations of a phoneme are called:
Allophones.
The type of transcription that includes (almost) all the production details of a sound/word is called
Phonetic transcription.
The typical transcription of the pronunciation of words as that found in dictionaries is called:
Phonemic trasncription.
The comparatively straightforward business of describing the sounds that we use in speaking is called:
Phonetics.
