The word _____ simply refers to " a unit of explicit sound contrast": the existence of a minmal pair automatically grants phonemic status to the sounds responsible for the contrasts.
A. allophone
B. phoneme
C. sound
D. syllable
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Which of the following is the correct description of the English consonant [z]?
A. voiceless alveolar affricate
B. voiceless bilabial nasal
C. voiced alveolar stop
D. voiced alveolar fricative
Otto Yesperson , Daniel Jones and their colleagues made great contributions to language teaching by developing and perfecting IPA which is extensively used in dictionaries and textbooks.
A. 对
B. 错
Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combination of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.
A. 对
B. 错
Suprasegmental phonology refers to the study of phonological properties of units larger than the segment-phoneme, such as syllable, word and sentence
A. 对
B. 错