The initial vowel of "economics" could be either /i/ or /e/ according to the variation in the pronunciation of different speakers. The sounds are said to be …………. in that particular word.

A. Articulatory

B. Acoustics

C. Auditory

D. Experimental

A. Grammar

B. Phonotactics

C. Phonetics

D. Text linguistics

A. /p, t and k/

B. /s, k and t/

C. /p, s and k/

D. /a, i and i:/

A. The mentalist view

B. The physical view

C. The functional view

D. The abstract view

A. The lungs

B. The stomach

C. The tongue

D. The eyes

A. The phoneme is the smallest distinctive unit of sound in a language.

B. The morpheme is the smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two morphemes or two words.

C. The allophones of the same phoneme must show phonetic similarity to one another.

D. The allophones of the same phoneme must occur in the phonetic context.

A. Allophonic

B. Phonemic

C. Narrow

D. Morphophonemic