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T/f: With regard to vowels, "high" refers to the vertical position of the tongue.
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TRUE.
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T/f: Complex vowel nuclei in North American English can also be referred to as diphthongs.
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TRUE
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One feature of vowel pronunciation that is NOT phonemic of functional in Spanish or English is:
a: lip-rounding b. height c. position on a front-to-back axis |
A: lip-rounding
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"Whispered" vowels are also referred to as _____ vowels.
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Devoiced
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T/f: One of the main problems that English speakers have with Spanish vowels are the "whispered" vowels.
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FALSE
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If you don't pronounce the unstressed vowel of Spanish mesas properly, it may sound like:
a. masas b. mesa c. meses |
C. meses
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T/f: Spanish /a/ is always spelled with a or ha.
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TRUE
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You should always know when a Spanish word has the diphthong [ei] because ______________
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It's represented in writing, w/ letters ei (reina) or ey (rey)
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T/f: The so-called "short o" of English, as in not, cop, and con, is really not /o/ at all but /a/.
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TRUE
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Spanish [i] (underlined) is different from [i] because the fomer is a _____ whereas the latter is a full vowel.
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Semi-vowel (glide)
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Stressed [í] in Spanish has
a. two allophones b. a semi-vowel after it in most cases c. only one allophone |
C. only one allophone
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When you see a little subscribed numeral in a phonological rule, it calls your attention to something that is called a _____ of the rule.
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Condition
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T/f: Casual or rapid speech, while we recognize that it happens in Spanish, is meant to be avoided by a foreigner like your learning the language.
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FALSE
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The symbol || in Spanish phonology and phonetics represents
a. a pause v. a morpheme boundary c. a diphthong: two vowels in one syllable |
A. a pause
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T/f: A word like miasma and a phrase like mi asma can only be distinguished from each otehr by context, but never by their sounds like aboard and a board in English
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FALSE
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