The questions in this quiz are from The Study of Language (THIRD EDITION) book written by GEORGE YULE.
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#1. the part of a syllable after the vowel
#2. a puff of air that sometimes accompanies the pronunciation of a stop
#3. constraints on the permissible combination of sounds in a language
#4. ends with a vowel (as nucleus)
#5. the process whereby a feature of one sound becomes part of another during speech production
#6. the study of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in languages
#7. one of a closely related set of speech sounds or phones
#8. the process of leaving out a sound segment in the pronunciation of a word
#9. the smallest meaning-distinguishing sound unit in the abstract representation of the sounds of a language
#10. the vowel in a syllable
#11. a unit of sound consisting of a vowel and optional consonants before or after the vowel
#12. the part of the syllable before the vowel
#13. two or more consonants in sequence
#14. pronunciation of a sound with air flowing through the nose, typically before a nasal consonant
#15. two (or more) words that are identical in form except for a contrast in one phoneme in the same position in each word
#16. a physically produced speech sound, representing one version of a phoneme
#17. ends with a consonant (as coda)
#18. (fan–van, bet–bat, site–side) are
#19. the process of making one sound virtually at the same time as the next sound
#20. the part of the syllable containing the vowel plus any following consonant(s)
