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