Crossword: basic words

Phonetics Crossword

  

Complete the crossword (it contains basic words that we have studied) and then click on "Check" to check your answer. You have only five minutes to do it! You can click on a number in the grid to see the clue for that number. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Have fun!

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Across: 1. Organ that receives sound waves and transmits them to the brain, where they are analyzed. 10. A way to describe consonants. It's the meeting point between an active and a passive articulator. 11. The study of human speech sounds. 12. Speech sounds that are articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. 14. The speed of the vibration of a sound. It determines the pitch of the sound. 15. A vibration that propagates as a wave through a medium such as air or water. 16. The size of the vibration of a sound. It determines how loud the sound is.

Down: 2. One branch of phonetics. It focuses on the perception of sounds or the way in which sounds are heard and interpreted. 3. One branch of phonetics. It focuses on the production of the speech sounds. 4. One branch of phonetics. It focuses on the properties of the sound waves and the relationship of these properties with other branches of phonetics. 5. A way to describe vowels depending on their horizontal dimension. 6. A way to describe consonants that allows us to distinguish between voiced and voiceless sounds. 7. A way to describe vowels depending on their vertical dimension. 8. A way to describe vowels depending on the position of the lips. 9. A way to describe consonants. It's the degree of the airstream's obstruction and the type of closure made by the articulators. 13. Speech sounds that are articulated with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis.

Review about phonemes

Basic Review

Quiz about phomenes

  

Review all the posts about the phonemes and then answer the questions. You will know if you remember the basic information. You only have two minutes to answer!

 

1. What is a Phoneme?
   1.   The actual pronunciation of a sound. They can't change the meaning of a word.
   2.   It's the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language. It's a mental representation of the sound. They are established by means of minimal pairs.
2. How many phonemes for consonants are in English?
   1.   24
   2.   23
   3.   22
   4.   25
3. How many phonemes for pure vowels are in English?
   1.   13
   2.   10
   3.   12
   4.   11
4. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ð/?
   1.   thief, thick, thought, bath, beath
   2.   this, they, there, bathe, breathe
   3.   he, hate, here, ahead, ham
5. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ʃ/?
   1.   son, sit, soap, ice, cinema
   2.   zoo, zero, easy, busy, gaze
   3.   she, shoes, sugar, finish, rush
6. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /dʒ/?
   1.   joy, June, change, Jane, jeep
   2.   you, yes, yellow, young, year
7. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ŋ/?
   1.   make, smoke, climb, name, move
   2.   nose, none, nurse, name, soon
   3.   wrong, think, finger, sing, rang
8. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ɪ/?
   1.   sit, lip, tip, with, rich
   2.   sea, seen, cheese, leave, receive, believe
9. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ʌ/?
   1.   sat, cat, map, land, hand
   2.   cut, come, none, nothing, tongue
   3.   bath, pass, car, park, march
10. What of these groups of words are pronounced with the phoneme /ʊ/?
    1.   put, could, would, book, good
    2.   soon, moon, fool, do