Arranged by :

M. Zakaria Amirul Akbar

(06071001021)

Ike Wardhana Efroza

(06071001023)

English Education Study Program

Teacher Training and Education Faculty
Sriwijaya University
2009
No. Question Answer
Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural
languages.
What is
1 Phonology? (http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsPhonology.
htm)

Phonemics is the study of the phonemes.

What is
2 (http://www.bartleby.com/68/85/4585.html)
Phonemics?

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds.

What is
3 (READINGS FOR PHONOLOGY COURSE 2009 page214)
Phonetics?

Phoneme is a contrastive unit in the sound system of a particular language.

A minimal unit that serves to distinguish between meanings of words.
Pronounced in one or more ways, depending on the number of allophones.
What is a Represented between slashes by convention. Example:
4
Phoneme? /b/, /j/, /o/
(http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPhoneme.
htm)

Phone is one of many possible sounds in the languages of the world.

The smallest identifiable unit found in a stream of speech.
Pronounced in a defined way.
What is a Represented between brackets by convention. Example:
5
Phone? [b], [j], [o]
(http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAPhoneme.
htm)

An allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language.

Examples (English):
• [p] and [pH] are allophones of the phoneme /p/.
• [t] and [tH] are allophones of the phoneme /t/.
Examples (Spanish):
What is an
6 • [b] and [B] are allophones of the phoneme /b/.
allophone?
• [d] and [D] are allophones of the phoneme /d/.

(http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAllophon
e.htm)

Spelling is a represents the pronunciations of words.

What is
7 (READINGS FOR PHONOLOGY COURSE 2009 page217)