If similar sounds that occur in the same environments are two distinctive phonemes, they are said to form ______.
A. phonemic contrast
B. phonetic distinction
C. complementary distribution
D. minimal pair
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______ are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions.
A. Vowels
B. Consonants
C. Diphthongs
D. Individual vowels
Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is ______.
A. auditory
B. acoustic
C. articulatory phonetics
D. none of the above three
The consonant [f] in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features: ______.
A. voiceless, bilabial, stop
B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative
C. voiced, bilabial, stop
D. voiced, labiodental, fricative
In linguistics, ______ is focused on that how a speaker uses his speech organs to articulate the sounds.
A. acoustic phonetics
B. articulatory phonetics
C. auditory phonetics
D. none of the above