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ESOL NES EXAM PART 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS phonetics - ....ANSWER ...-production of speech sounds phonology - ....ANSWER ...-the study of speech sounds in language phonemes - ....ANSWER ...-smallest unit of sound allophones - ....ANSWER ...-Letters or combinations of letters that make the same sound phonetic variation - ....ANSWER ...-variation in pronouncing a particular sound place of articulation - ....ANSWER ...-The position in the mouth where a consonant sound is produced manner of articulation - ....ANSWER ...-the extent to which airflow is interrupted by parts of the mouth in the production of consonant sounds voicing - ....ANSWER ...-vibration of the vocal folds reduced vowels - ....ANSWER ...-vowels ➔ ə in an unstressed syllable (pho-TUH- graph) schwa - ....ANSWER ...-The vowel sound sometimes heard in an unstressed syllable and is most often sounded as /uh/ or as the short /u/ sound as in cup. ....FOR STUDY PURPOSES...©️2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED... 1