8.Primary _________means the direct imitation of sound by sound, of natural sound by human speech sound.

In American English, “r”sound is rhotic both in front of a vowel sound and a consonant sound.

_____________ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.

____is a process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound.

When one word ends with a vowel sound and the next word begins with a vowel sound, we link the words with a little /j/ or /w/ sound.

Nasalization rule read, a non-nasalized sound is transformed into a nsound when it appears before a nasalized sound.

Which of the following statements describes the study of articulatory phonetics? A: It studies the sound transmission in the air. B: It studies how human beings perceive a sound. C: It studies how human beings produce a sound. D: It studies how human beings hear a sound.

"Light travels faster than sound," my teacher told me. My teacher told me ______ ______ ______ faster than sound.

In the historical development of language, sound change is inevitable, such as sound loss, sound a______ and sound movement.

The policeman stopped ________, but he _______ no sound.