MCQs-Phonetics and Phonology

Course Title: Phonetics and Phonology Question

Please circle the correct option. 1) Acoustic phonetics is concerned with which of the following: 1) The production of sounds in human languages 2) The generation of speech sounds by computer. . 3) The perception of sounds of human languages. 4) The properties of the sound waves of human speech. 2) The idea of universal grammar was given by 1) William Labov 2) Noam Chomsky 3) George Yule 4) David Crystal 3) Articulatory phonetics is the study of 1) Speech organs 2) physical properties of speech 3) Phonemes 4) physical production of speech sounds 4) The initial sound in ‘Pakistan’ is 1) interdental 2) palatal 3) bilabial 4) alveolar 5) /kju/ is a phonemic transcription of 1) you 2) queue 3) knew 4) quay 6) /tʌŋ / is a phonemic transcription of 1) ton 2) tongue 3) tone 4) toy 7) Which of the following is the most common syllable shape in the world's languages: 1) C 2) VCC 3) VC 4) CV 8) To make a nasal phone, which of the following do you do: 1) Raise the velum 2) Make a pharyngeal closure 3) Lower the velum 4) Make a blockage in the nasal cavity 9) Which of the two main types of phones involve the unimpeded flow of air through the oral cavity? 1) Vowels 2) Consonants 3) Plosives 4) Fricatives 10) Phonetic symbol '[j]' sound is a 1) stop 2) nasal 3) glide 4) liquid 11) Phonetic symbol '[z]' sound is a 1) fricative 2) affricate 3) nasal 4) glide 12) Phonetic symbol '[k]' sound is a

13)

14)

15)

16)

17)

18)

19)

20)

21)

22)

1) fricative 2) affricate 3) stop 4) glide Phonetic symbol '[d]' sound is a 1) fricative 2) affricate 3) stop 4) glide [m] sound is 1) bilabial 2) dental 3) velar 4) glottal [v] sound is 1) bilabial 2) dental 3) labiodental 4) glottal [ŋ] sound is 1) bilabial 2) velar 3) labiodental 4) glottal [f] sound is 1) bilabial 2) velar 3) labiodental 4) glottal [θ] and [ð] are 1) dental 2) bilabial 3) glottal 4) Alveolars Phonology is the study of 1) meaning of speech sounds 2) systems and patterns of speech sounds 3) physical production of speech sounds 4) context of speech sounds Meaning-distinguishing sound in a language is 1) morpheme 2) syllable 3) phoneme 4) vowel Aspiration is the 1) puff of air 2) inhalation of air 3) exhalation of air 4) blocking of air One of a closely related set of sounds of a phoneme is called

23)

24)

25)

26)

27)

28)

29)

30) are

31)

1) syntax 2) semantics 3) allophone 4) phonetics Permitted arrangements of sounds in a language are called 1) allophones 2) phonemes 3) phonotactics 4) minimal pairs A syllable must contain 1) a consonant 2) a sound 3) a syntax 4) a vowel or vowel-like sound Auditory phonetics is the study of 1) Grammar 2) Reception of speech sounds 3) Phonics 4) Pragmatics One of the basic elements of the syllable is 1) rhyme 2) dilect 3) accent 4) stress The position of onset is 1) final 2) medial 3) centre 4) start Rhyme/rime should consists of 1) a vowel 2) a consonant 3) stress 4) elision Rhyme is is treated as 1) the nucleus 2) the syllable 3) the coda 4) the onset The syllables that have an onset and a nucleus, but no coda 1) stress syllables 2) close syllables 3) open syllables 4) free syllables The syllabic structure of the word 'green' is 1) (CCVC) 2) (VCC) 3) (VCC) 4) (CVC)

32)

The word 'splash' has 1) 3 consonant clusters in the beginning 2) 4 consonant clusters in the beginning 3) 2 consonant clusters in the beginning 4) No consonant clusters in the beginning 33) Two well-known coarticulation effects are 1) stress and intonation 2) syntax and grammar 3) phonetics and phonology 4) assimilation and elision 34) When two sound segments occur in a sequence and some aspect of one segment is “copied” by the other, the process is known as 1) pronunciation 2) assimilation 3) deletion 4) dialect 35) The phrase [aɪkəŋɡoʊ] in phonemic transcription is 1) They could go 2) He can go 3) I can go 4) We should go 36) The phrase is [juənmi] in phonemic transcription is 1) He and you 2) You and me 3) you and mine 4) you and we 37) [juənmi] is an example of 1) Elision 2) Assimilation 3) Coordination 4) Consideration 38) The phrase is [himəsbi] in phonemic transcription is an example of 1) consideration 2) coordination 3) elision 4) assimilation 39) In elision 1) a new sound is added 2) a sound is dropped 3) the same sound remains 4) sounds are merged 40) In manner of articulation, we study 1) The characteristics of sounds 2) Syntax 3) Semantics 4) Places of articulation