I . Fill in the blanks. 1. 1. The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds. A. voiceless B. voiced C. vowel D. consonantal 2. A_______ phonetics describes the way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ. 3. The four sounds /p/, /b/, /m/ and /w/ have one feature in common, i.e., they are all b_______ sounds. 4. Of all the speech organs, the t_______ is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other. 5. English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of p_______ of articulation. 6. When the obstruction created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction audibly released and the air passing out again is called a s________. 7. The sound /f/ is _________________. A. voiced palatal affricate B. voiced alveolar stop C. voiceless velar fricative D. voiceless labiodental fricative 8. A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position. A. back B. central C. front D. middle 9. The transcription of speech sounds with letter-symbols only is called broad transcription while the transcription with letter-symbols together with the diacritics is called n_________ transcription. 10. The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important cavities: the pharyngeal cavity, the o_______ cavity and the nasal cavity. II. Analyze the following situation. Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic descriptions; then give an English word that contains this sound. Example: voiced alveolar stop [d] (1) voiceless bilabial unaspirated stop (2) low front vowel (3) lateral liquid (4) velar nasal (5) voiced interdental fricative