A consonant during the articulation of which the vocal cords vibrate is called a VOICED consonant.

 MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

1. A consonant during the articulation of which the vocal cords vibrate is called a ________________ consonant.
2. A consonant during the articulation of which there is no velic opening or the oral cavity is closed then it is called a ____________________ consonant. 
3. The difference between a plosive and an affricate is that during the articulation of plosives the release of air is __________________ and during the articulation of affricates the release is __________________. 
4. Allophones are __________________of the same __________________. 
5. Vowels are more _________________ than consonants. There is little or no __________________in the production of vowels. 
6. ________________ is a sound which is present in your mother tongue but not in English. (use IPA to indicate the sound) 
7. __________ is a voiceless bilabial plosive and ___________ is a voiced alveolar lateral phoneme in English. (use IPA to indicate the phoneme)

8. A speech sound which patterns like a consonant but is phonetically a brief vowel such as /w/ in win is called a _____________. 9. Fricatives are produced by a ________________ in the vocal tract so as to ______________. 10. The _______________ vowels serve as points of reference for identifying real vowels in actual languages.

Answers :

1. voiced, 

2. voiceless, 

3. blocked, Open, 

4. sounds, set of sounds, 

5. sounds, construction, 

6. Jargon,

7. b, d, 

8. syllabic speech sound, 

9. hissing, produces sound, 

10. cardinal.

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