Phonology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• consonant : a phoneme characterised by at least a partial obstruction of air
• content : a type of word that carries the main information, generally stressed and has an effect of the predictability of rhythm
• auxiliaries : a, usually unstressed, type of verb that is used to provide extra context to the main verb such as tense or modality
• cluster : a series of consonants appearing directly following one another either in words or connected speech is known as a consonant _
• assimilation : a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds
• articulator : any one of our vocal organs used to produce sound
• broad : a word to describe transcriptions of speech focused only on phonemic features
• accent : a phonological variation system - usually geographic
• affricate : a sound which is a combination of a stop and a fricative
• allophone : the first consonant sound in the words ‘kill’ and ‘call’ is an example of this type of phonetic variation
• complementary : a distribution of speech sounds that never contrast with each other in terms of changing meaning
• cardinal : a series of vowel sounds against which other sounds can be measured and described are known as _ vowels
• contrastive : an emphasis expressed verbally to highlight an element of stress within a sentence or discourse is a type of _ stress