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What does phonetics primarily study?
Which type of phonetics focuses on the production of speech sounds?
How does linguistic knowledge affect one's perception of speech sounds?
What is a issues with using ordinary spelling to represent sounds?
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What example illustrates that the same sound can be represented by different letters in English?
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Which of the following best describes acoustic phonetics?
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What is one issue with the English alphabet regarding sound representation?
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What role does auditory phonetics play in the study of phonetics?
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What is the primary function of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
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Which of the following best describes how consonants are produced?
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Which voicing distinction is crucial for distinguishing between certain English words?
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What term describes sounds like [m] and [n] that allow air to escape through the nose?
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Which category of sounds is produced by completely stopping airflow in the oral cavity?
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What feature distinguishes tense vowels from lax vowels?
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Which of the following is an example of an affricate?
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Which of the following describes the role of prosodic features in language?
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What is the primary difference between voiced and voiceless sounds?
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Which class of vowels does not allow for a nasalized production in English?
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How are glides characterized in phonetics?
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Which feature best differentiates dialectal pronunciation?
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What type of sound is produced by moving air in the mouth between various articulators?
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What is an important feature of tone languages like Thai?
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