Sunday November 3rd
Quiz 1
1.
Give the correct technical term for the sounds resulting from the following
closure
(a) Complete closure followed by slow release of air or fricative
_____________________________________
(b) Partial or incomplete closure and a turbulent airflow
_____________________________________
(c) Complete closure followed by a sudden release of air
_____________________________________
(d) Partial closure without turbulent air stream
_____________________________________
(e) Partial closure where the airstream is blocked by the tip off the tongue but
allowed to escape round the sides of the tongue
______________________________________
(f) Complete closure of the oral cavity with the air diverted through the nose
______________________________________
2.
Write the four-part articulatory descriptions for the vowel sounds represented
by the following symbols
a. [i] _______________________________
b. [o] ________________________________
c. [u] ________________________________
d. [æ] __________________________________
e. [ɑ]___________________________________
f. [ɛ]___________________________________
3.
For each of the following pairs of sounds, 1) state whether they have the same
or different vowel sounds by circling the appropriate answer. Then 2)
transcribe each word.
a. coat: cot
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription_________________________________
b. father: fact
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription ________________________________
c. moon: foot
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription _______________________________
d. eye: fight
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription ______________________________
e. book: put
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription _______________________________
f. how: brown
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription: _____________________________
g. sink: fit
SAME
DIFFERENT
Transcription ______________________________
h. month: love
SAME DIFFERENT
Transcription _______________________________
4.
Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to each of the following
descriptions
a. voiceless bilabial stop
[
]
b. low front vowel
[
]
c. lateral liquid
[
]
d. velar nasal
[
]
e. voiced interdental fricative
[
]
f. voiceless affricate
[
]
g. palatal glide
[
]
h. mid lax front vowel
[
]
i. high back tense vowel
[
]
j. voiceless alveolar stop
[
]
5.
Each of the following sets contains an inappropriate member. Circle it and
then say what phonetic features all the other members in each group share.
Avoid obvious answers such as "consonant" or "vowel."
1. m, n, ŋ, d
2. n, d, z, t, f
3. ð, g, p, b, m, v
4. g, k, ŋ, n, w
5. ʃ, ʒ, z, f s, j
6. ɛ, ɔ, o, Ʊ, ə, ^, ɪ
6.
_______________________________
___________________________
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Give the correct technical terms for the sounds made in the following ways:
(a) Both lips coming together ______________________________
(b) The bottom lips and top teeth coming together__________________
(c) The tongue between the upper and lower teeth _____________________
(d) The tongue touching the hard palate______________________
(e) The tongue touching the soft palate______________________
(f) Sounds articulated with the back of the tongue______________________
(g) Vowels in which the body of the tongue is in the front part of the
oral____________________________
Voicing refers to the “open” or “close” state of the
a. velum
b. glottis
c. nasal cavity
d. mouth
7.
8.
The sounds [d] and [n] are ________________ in English.
coronal
labial
dorsal
retroflex
a.
b.
c.
d.
9.
In the pronunciation of the /j/, the blade of the tongue approaches the
a. hard palate
b. soft palate
c. velum
d. uvular
10.
The space between the focal folds is called
a. Pharynx
b. Larynx
c. Glottis
d. Velum
11.
The soft palate must be ______________________during the production of a
nasal sound
a. Raised
b. Lowered
c. Closed
d. nasalized
The soft movable part of the palate at the back of themouth is the
a. Glottis
b. Velum
c. Hard palate
d. Alveolarridge
12.
13.
Voicing refers to the vibration of the ____________________________
a. Velim
b. Pharynx
c. Focal folds
d. Glottis
14.
The active articulator for the retroflex is the ________________ of the tongue
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
15.
16.
Tip
Blade
Front
Back
Root
Sounds articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue raised towards the teeth
or the alveolar ridge are called
a. Labial
b. Coronal
c. Dorsal
d. Alveolar
_______________________ include phonetic features such as stress,length
and intonation
a. Strong features
b. Weak features
c. Segmental features
d. Suprasegmental features
17.
Variations in _________________________ are used in English to distinguish
between a noun and a verb.
a. Tone
b. Pitch
c. Stress
d. Length
18.
Variations in _______________________ are caused by an increase in the
activity of the respiratory muscles (so that a greater amount of air is pushed
out of the lungs) and in the activity of hr laryngeal muscles (so that there is a
significant variation in pitch)
a. Intonation
b. Length
c. Stress
d. Pitch
19.
_________________ is a vowel in which there is a change in quality during a
single syllable
a. Front vowel
b. Lax vowel
c. Diphthong
d. Dorsum
20.
When two sounds can be used to differentiate words, they are said to belongto
different
a. Sounds
b. Syllables
c. Phones
d. Phonemes
21.
22.
A set of words, each of which differs from all the others by only one sound, is
called a
a. Phonetic set
b. Phonemic set
c. Minimal set
d. Rhyming set
Sounds articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue raised toward the teeth
or the alveolar ridge are called
a. dorsal
b. coronal
c. glottal
d. bilabial
23.
In the pronunciation of /w/, the lips are rounded and at the same time, the back
of the tongue approaches
a. the velum
b. the hard palate
c. the glottis
d. the alveolar ridge
24.
Voicing refers to the “open” or “close” state of the
e. velum
f. glottis
g. nasal cavity
h. mouth