1. | Emphasize | A. | an important feature of connected speech. It is the way a speaker changes the level of their voice to show meaning. |
2. | Voiced sound | B. | a movement from one vowel sound to another within a single syllable. |
3. | Word boundary | C. | the phonemes of English are often shown in a chart. |
4. | Primary, main stress | D. | in the transcription of a word you can see phonemic symbols and also a sign which dictionary entries use it to show a... |
5. | Unvoiced sound | E. | give special force to a word. |
6. | Consonant | F. | words distinguished by only one phoneme. |
7. | Word stress | G. | pattern of stress of speech regular. |
8. | Rhythm | H. | one or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly such an element of speech. |
9. | Distinguish | I. | the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to meaning in a language. |
10. | Weak form | J. | the word which the speaker thinks is most important to the meaning of the sentence. |
11. | Secondary stress | K. | Accent or a mark representing such emphasis or force. |
12. | Connected speech | L. | spoken without using our voice. |
13. | Stress | M. | the flow of air is partly blocked by the tongue, lips or teeth when these sounds are made. |
14. | Linking | N. | unstressed forms of words. |
15. | Schwa | O. | putting the stress on an unexpected word in a sentence. |
16. | Phonology | P. | it is a feature of connected speech which helps to keep it smooth. |
17. | Minimal pairs | Q. | to pronounce syllables with less energy, specially the unstressed or weak syllables, whose vowels get shortened or sometimes even disappear. |
18. | Diphthong | R. | the study of the sound features used in a language to communicate meaning. |
19. | Vowel | S. | notice or understand the difference between two things. |
20. | Syllable | T. | spoken using the vibration of our voice. |
21. | Phoneme | U. | spoken language in which all the words join to make a connected stream of sounds. |
22. | Phonemic chart | V. | this is not so strong as a main stress and falls on words which are not so important to the meaning of the sentence as the word with main stress. |
23. | Intonation | W. | sound made with the mouth partly open and where the air is not stopped by the tongue, lips or teeth. |
24. | Contrastive stress | X. | where one word ends and the next one begins. |