Connected speech

What is the common feature among these sounds?

/p/ /b/ and /m/

• Bilabial

• Nasal

• Alveolar

• Labio-dental

What is the common feature among these sounds?

/t/, /d/, /n/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/

• Bilabial

• Velar

• Alveolar

• Dental

What is the common feature of the following sounds?

/p/, /t/, /k/ and /b/, /d/, /g/

• Voiced plosives and unvoiced plosives

• Unvoiced plosives and voiced plosives

• Aspirated sounds

• Voiced stops and unvoiced stops

In rapid speech, /t/ and /d/ are elided (omitted) when they occur at the end of word (or word stem) or in between two consonants.

• True

• False

When people talk, they often blend words together and make some changes in the sounds. This is ______.

• A sign of sloppy, lazy speech.

• A sign that the speaker is thinking carefully about these changes.

• A normal part of everyone's speech

• Mostly a characteristic of uneducated speakers.

When three or more consonant sounds come together, the consonant cluster is sometimes simplified by omitting ______.

• The first consonant

• The middle consonant

• The last consonant

• Any consonant the speaker chooses

How is a stressed syllable different from an unstressed syllable? (Choose four answers.)

• The syllable is longer in duration.

• The syllable is shorter in duration.

• The syllable is louder.

• The vowel sound in the syllable is clearer

• The syllable is higher in pitch.

The word little has _____ syllable(s).

• one

• two

• three

• four

The word dictionary has _____ syllable(s).

• one

• two

• three

• four

The word spring has _____ syllable(s).

• one

• two

• three

• four