1) Which of the following sound classes is/are syllabic? Select one or more: a.

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1) Which of the following sound classes is/are syllabic?

Select one or more:

a. Glides

b. Consonants

c. Vowels

2) Why do we need the IPA to talk about human speech sounds?

Select one:

a. Because it offers us a better way to disambiguate between words that sounds the same but are not written the same, such as knight and night.

b. Because most spelling systems do not have a good one-to-one relation between letter and sound.

c. Because it offers a better way to represent silent vowels in words such as mouse.

d. Because it makes it easier for children to learn the spelling system of English when using phonics.

Explanation / Answer

1. b and c

Consonants- A syllabic consonant is a consonant that actually replaces vowel in a syllable. We actually have four cosonants which can actually be termed as syllabic namely L,M, N , R.

Vowels- Vowels can be considered as the letters that actually get to form the peak of the syllable. eg- a, e, i, o ,u .

2. a. Because it offers us a better way to disambiguate between words that sounds the same but are not written the same

The International Phonetic Alphabet can be considered as the one which works roughly independent of the actual spelling of the word. By devising such a methodology, it would be highly easy for the people to distinguish between sounds and vowels..

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