English Sounds Review Quiz

Audible sounds are produced

• when you move your lips

• when you place your tongue to the front of your mouth.

• When you move the air out from your lungs and through the nose and mouth.

• When you speak

• None of the previous

The following are places of articulation:

• Alveolar ridge, velum, and hard palate

• Jaw bone, glottis, blade of the tongue

• tip of the tongue, blade of the tongue, upper teeth

• back of the tongue, hard palate, and velum

• All of the previous

This pronunciation feature refers to the ways the airstream is obstructed in the mouth when we articulate a consonant sound

• All of them

• voicing

• manner of articulation

• place of articulation

• None of them

The vibration produced by the vocal folds during the sound production is referred as_____________ feature in phonetics

• resonation

• aspiration 

• voicing

• laxness

The sounds resulting from the passage of the air thru the nose are classified as

• fricatives

• stops

• affricatives

• nasals

• bilabials

The most active articulator is

• the tongue

• the lips

• the jaw bone

• the uvula

Mention the three basic features used to classify the consonant sounds in English.

(a)  

The sounds produced by placing the upper teeth to the lower lips are known as

(a)  

Glide sounds are also called

(a)  

The sounds produced by pressing the tip of your tongue against the tooth ridge are known as

(a)