SHS 250 MODULE 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
Phonetics - Answers study of speech sounds
Articulators - Answers parts of oral tract used to produce sounds of speech
Articulatory Phonetics - Answers emphasizes position and movement of articulators
acoustic phonetics - Answers emphasizes the physics of sound
clinical phonetics - Answers phonetics as it applies to disorders
response complexity - Answers listening to specific sounds at a time
system complexity - Answers how detailed is the description of the sound, scoring types
Scoring types - Answers two way scoring: incorrect/correct
five way scoring: correct, omission, substitution, distortion, addition
phonetic transcription: describing what you have heard in greater detail
is a child who uses W sound instead of a R an example of distortion or substitution - Answers
substitution
What is distortion? - Answers when the sound is not left out or substituted but does not sound right
(example: saying "thith" instead of "this"
principles of the phonetic alphabet - Answers one symbol for one phone
a sound is written the same all the time
all sounds must be written (no missing symbols)
symbols do not change
T or F? The IPA's main principle is that there are multiple symbols for one sound so that transcribers
have lots of ways to represent speech. - Answers False. One of the principles is that there is only one
symbol for each phone.
language - Answers a system that uses sounds, signs, or symbols to communicate
speech - Answers sounds produced by movement of the speech organs
dialect - Answers a subset of patterns within a language based on a region, affect use of sounds
and/or word choice and grammar
accent - Answers refers to the pronunciation of sounds
dialect - Answers includes sound production as well as wording and grammar
syntax - Answers the way words combine to form sentences
semantics - Answers the meaning of words and sentences
morphology - Answers the structure of words and how you break them down into smaller parts that
have meaning. Example: Book is just one morpheme, but transformation has 3 morphemes that add
to its meaning. Form is the base word. Trans- and -tion are the other two morphemes
Phonology - Answers the way speech sounds
Phonetics - Answers study of speech sounds
broad transcription - Answers how a word is "supposed" to be said, uses slashes, only records primary
sounds
narrow transcription - Answers how a person actually produced it, uses brackets, uses diacritics to
provide details
what is phonemic transcription - Answers to identify phonemes, broad transcription
What is phonetic transcription? - Answers the identification of allophones, narrow transcription
Diacritics - Answers special marks to indicate subtle phonetic differences
what causes allophones - Answers it's random (free variation) and something we can predict
(complementary distribution)
Three systems of speech production - Answers respiratory - air source
laryngeal - sound source supralaryngeal- sound filter
larynx - Answers cartilage that holds vocal folds, is between the trachea and hyoid bone which is the
only bone in the laryngeal system
fundamental frequency - Answers rate of vocal fold vibration
Cavities of the supralaryngeal system - Answers oral, nasal, pharyngeal
Phonetics - Answers study of speech sounds
Articulators - Answers parts of oral tract used to produce sounds of speech
Articulatory Phonetics - Answers emphasizes position and movement of articulators
acoustic phonetics - Answers emphasizes the physics of sound
clinical phonetics - Answers phonetics as it applies to disorders
response complexity - Answers listening to specific sounds at a time
system complexity - Answers how detailed is the description of the sound, scoring types
Scoring types - Answers two way scoring: incorrect/correct
five way scoring: correct, omission, substitution, distortion, addition
phonetic transcription: describing what you have heard in greater detail
is a child who uses W sound instead of a R an example of distortion or substitution - Answers
substitution
What is distortion? - Answers when the sound is not left out or substituted but does not sound right
(example: saying "thith" instead of "this"
principles of the phonetic alphabet - Answers one symbol for one phone
a sound is written the same all the time
all sounds must be written (no missing symbols)
symbols do not change
T or F? The IPA's main principle is that there are multiple symbols for one sound so that transcribers
have lots of ways to represent speech. - Answers False. One of the principles is that there is only one
symbol for each phone.
language - Answers a system that uses sounds, signs, or symbols to communicate
speech - Answers sounds produced by movement of the speech organs
dialect - Answers a subset of patterns within a language based on a region, affect use of sounds
and/or word choice and grammar
accent - Answers refers to the pronunciation of sounds
dialect - Answers includes sound production as well as wording and grammar
syntax - Answers the way words combine to form sentences
semantics - Answers the meaning of words and sentences
morphology - Answers the structure of words and how you break them down into smaller parts that
have meaning. Example: Book is just one morpheme, but transformation has 3 morphemes that add
to its meaning. Form is the base word. Trans- and -tion are the other two morphemes
Phonology - Answers the way speech sounds
Phonetics - Answers study of speech sounds
broad transcription - Answers how a word is "supposed" to be said, uses slashes, only records primary
sounds
narrow transcription - Answers how a person actually produced it, uses brackets, uses diacritics to
provide details
what is phonemic transcription - Answers to identify phonemes, broad transcription
What is phonetic transcription? - Answers the identification of allophones, narrow transcription
Diacritics - Answers special marks to indicate subtle phonetic differences
what causes allophones - Answers it's random (free variation) and something we can predict
(complementary distribution)
Three systems of speech production - Answers respiratory - air source
laryngeal - sound source supralaryngeal- sound filter
larynx - Answers cartilage that holds vocal folds, is between the trachea and hyoid bone which is the
only bone in the laryngeal system
fundamental frequency - Answers rate of vocal fold vibration
Cavities of the supralaryngeal system - Answers oral, nasal, pharyngeal
