Across
- 4. a branch of linguistic, which studies the systems and patterns of sounds in language.
- 6. used to represent speech sounds
- 7. speaker´s performance, the actual utterance a speaker produces.
- 8. statements of permissible strings of phonemes. It deals with the way consonants combine and with the position consonants and vowels may occupy in the syllable or word.
- 9. term used when a linguistic unit or process is more natural than another.
- 10. the use of the pitch of the voice to convey meaning
- 11. studies the nature and limits of the human ability to produce speech sounds and describes the way these sounds are delivered.
- 12. a system of mutually defining entities according to Saussure
- 15. words which are distinguished by one phoneme.
- 17. variation the opposite of Complementary distribution is called….
- 20. accent of standard English in the UK
- 21. the relative strength of a syllable
- 23. one of the basic notions in phonology. The allophones.
- 24. non-constructive sounds. One way in which a particular phoneme can be pronounced.
- 25. a small number of regularly used sounds (vowels and consonants),the basic units of phonology.
- 27. one of the basic notions in phonology. And the allophones have a particular…………
Down
- 1. studies the physical properties of speech sounds during transmission from speaker to hearer
- 2. a conglomeration of signs, each invested with arbitrary meaning according to Saussure.
- 3. when an allophone do not occupy the same position in words, we say they are in….
- 5. mimic the words of other languages
- 13. term used for units or process which are less expected.
- 14. linguistic system on the basis of which all speakers are able to understand and produce speech.
- 16. the pronunciation of the language
- 18. one of the basic notions in phonology. It is the phoneme.
- 19. Is concerned with hearing and the perception of speech, or our response to speech sounds as received through the ear and brain.
- 22. a variety of language which is different from others in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and word-order
- 26. for a phonetician are phenomena in the physical world whereas for the phonologist, they are linguistic items whose intrinsic interest is their function.