B. THEORY. Complete the sentences with the most appropriate words.

1. ……PHONETICS………………deals with the articulatory, auditory and acoustic aspects of sounds in a

language.

2. During the production of …………VOICED……………sounds, the vocal cords are loosely together.

3. The front of the tongue lies just below the…HARD……… ……PALATE………… .

4. The weak vowel /…ə…/ occurs only in non-prominent position.

5.There is no …BLOCKAGE…………… or……NARROWING…………..of the airflow in the mouth cavity in

the production of yowel sounds.

6. Verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives are referred to as … LEXICAL………… ……WORDS…………… .

7. …………DECODING……………… is a psychological activity that takes place in the listener's brain.

8. The neutralized vowels [i] and [ u ] usually occur in ………NON PROMINENT………….. syllables.

9. Articles, prepositions, pronouns, etc. are called ………STRUCTURAL…..… words and they usually
contain …WEAK…………… ……VOWELS………………….. .

10 Plural suffix "s" is pronounced as /..z../ when the word ends in a voiced sound.

11. An allophone can be described as a ….REALIZATION….. of a phoneme.

12. ……………ENCODING………………………….. is a psychological activity that takes place in the

speaker's brain.

13. ………PHONOLOGY…………….. studies the organization and distribution of speech sounds in a

particular language.

14. …SELECTION…. ……SLOTS…… are those words made prominent by the speaker in order to signal
the significant choices in discourse.

15. As the most sonorous sounds of the language, vowels are usually the ……NUCLEUS…………. of
the syllable.

16. Unstressed English pronouns ending in the letter "e" such as he, she, we and me are
pronounced with the weak vowel …[ i ]….. .

17. Word suffixes "-ness, -less" can be pronounced either with /…ɪ…/ or /…ə…. / vowels.

18. All the words in a/n ………UTTERANCE………………………are said without any interruption of the
speech flow, as if they were a single big word.

19. Replacing a/n ……………PHONEME………… for another one can change the meaning of a word.

20. The dropping of a sound in spoken language is called …………………ELISION…………………………… .