简答题\n In English, the prominence of words with sentence stress is realized by lengthening the accented words only.\n简答题\n Imitation is the only and most effective way to learn the pronunciation and intonation of a foreign language well.\n简答题\n A phoneme is the smallest or minimal contrastive unit which may bring about a change of meaning in a given language.\n简答题\n Phonetics is the science of speech sounds. It studies how the speech sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived. It is language specific.\n简答题\n In communication, what decides which tone to use in a specific context is the sentence pattern.\n简答题\n The difference between the initial sounds of Chinese (怕) and （爸）is whether it is voiced.\n简答题\n When two phones are in complementary distribution, they are to be taken as allophones of the same phoneme.\n简答题\n In both Chinese and English, /h/ is a voiceless velar fricative consonant.\n简答题\n As the rhythm pattern differs, the prosodic features of the languages concerned differ as well.\n简答题\n Chinese and English differ only in the rhythm pattern.\n