30 CÂU HỎI
…………. deals with how speech sounds are produced, transmitted, and perceived.
A. Grammar
B. Phonotactics
C. Phonetics
D. Text linguistics
…………. phonetics deals with how speech sounds are perceived by the listeners.
A. Articulatory
B. Acoustics
C. Auditory
D. Experimental
…………. phonetics deals with the transmission of speech sounds through the air.
A. Articulatory
B. Acoustic
C. Experimental
D. Auditory
Which of the following is not considered as (an) articulator(s)?
A. The tongue
B. The lips
C. The velum
D. The ears
…………. is the study or description of the distinctive sound units of a language and their relationship to one another.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
The production of different speech sounds through the use of organs of speech is known as ………….
A. Assimilation
B. Dissimilation
C. Articulation
D. Syllabification
Which of the following is not an aspect of the speech sounds as a physical event?
A. Physiological
B. Acoustic
C. Articulatory
D. Comprehensive
Besides having the physical properties, the speech sounds also have …………. when they are distinctive units of sounds in a language.
A. Thematic function
B. Stylistic function
C. Affective function
D. Distinctive function
The term …………. is applied for the study of the more abstract, the more functional, or the more psychological aspects of speech.
A. Phonetics
B. Phonology
C. Grammar
D. Semantics
Since …………. is easily understood in all English-speaking countries, it is adapted as the norm in the schools and higher educational institutions.
A. Received pronunciation (RP)
B. Broad Australian
C. Narrow American
D. New Zealand
Which of the following is not a state of the speech chain?
A. Psychological
B. Articulatory
C. Acoustic
D. Synthetic (or interpretive)
The …………. provide the most usual source of energy.
A. Lungs
B. Ears
C. Eyes
D. Lips
The larynx is situated in the upper part of the ………….
A. Mouth
B. Windpipe
C. Eyes
D. Ears
When the vocal cords are touching or nearly touching, the sounds they produce might be
A. /p, t and k/
B. /s, k and t/
C. /p, s and k/
D. /a, i and i:/
The oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities function as …………. of the note produced in the larynx.
A. Vibrators
B. Resonators
C. Joiner
D. Filler
Which of the following is/are the articulators above the larynx?
A. The lungs
B. The stomach
C. The tongue
D. The eyes
The …………. is between the teeth ridge and the soft palate.
A. Hard palate
B. Tongue
C. Nose
D. Lungs
We use the word glottis to refer to the opening between ………….
A. The eyes
B. The ears
C. The vocal cords
D. The mouth
The …………. can be rounded, neutral, or unrounded.
A. Lips
B. Resonators
C. Joiners
D. Fillers
Which of the following states of the vocal cords is important in the production of vibration?
A. Wide apart
B. Touching or nearly touching each other
C. Narrow glottis
D. Half apart
Which of the following is not true?
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.
…………. regards the phoneme as the minimal sound unit by which meanings may be distinguished.
A. The mentalist view
B. The physical view
C. The functional view
D. The abstract view
Allophones are known as …………. variants of a phoneme.
A. The predictable syllabic
B. The predictable phonetic
C. The predictable morphological
D. The predictable textual
Which of the following is not a segmental phoneme?
A. The vowel
B. The stress
C. The consonant
D. The diphthong
Which of the following words form a minimal pair?
A. Bate-bite
B. Thin-free
C. Bat-she
D. Ship-three
Which of the following pairs of phonemes differs in two distinctive features?
A. /p-b/
B. /t-d/
C. /p-g/
D. /p-z/
How many phonemes are there in the word "teaching"?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
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. Free variation
B. Positional variation
C. Distinctive variation
D. Significant variation
A/An …………. transcription is based on the principle "one symbol per phoneme."
A. Allophonic
B. Phonemic
C. Narrow
D. Non-distinctive
When the word "meat" is transcribed as [mi:t], …………. transcription is used.
A. Allophonic
B. Phonemic
C. Narrow
D. Morphophonemic