INSTURCTION
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1. In English Language there are five vowel letters in the alphabet.
2. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Greek alphabet.
3. According to Crystal (1997) vowels are normally described with reference to five criteria.
4. A consonant is a sound made with your mouth fairly opened but a vowel is a speech sound made with your mouth fairly closed.
5. Antonymy is precisely the opposite of synonymy.
6. /æ/ is a ............. vowel
7. /u:/ is a ........... vowel.
8. /∧/ is a ............. vowel.
9. A vowel sound that glides successively through three qualities is a
10. Producing consonant sounds involves ........ airflow in different locations in your mouth.
11. Articulators which move during the production of speech sounds are referred to as ...... articulators.
12. Along how many major dimensions are consonants classified?
13. Which type of consonant is produced when the lower lip approaches or touches the upper teeth?
14. Which organ is the opening between the vocal folds.
15. A culturally recognized pattern of association that exists between lexical units in a language is called ..... relation.
16. A pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings lie on a continuous spectrum is ..... antonym.
17. Words that sound different, and mean different things, but are spelled the same are
18. The jaw is sometimes called the .....
19. A single sound composed of a stop portion and a fricative portion is referred to as
20. Cardinal vowels are not vowels of any particular language, but a measuring system.
