Pilar Ricart's Phonology

Vocabulary exercises

CONSONANT : a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.

VOWEL: a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, and which is a unit of the sound system of a language that forms the nucleus of a syllable.

DIPHTHONG: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side).

KESTREL: (pronuntiation) ('kɛstrɪl)

PHILOLOGY: Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship.

CROW: Corvus-Cuervo