Phonology

1- Games that involve rhyming, syllabifying, and segmenting are popular and helpful strategies in improving …………..

• A)- morphological awareness

• B)- phonetics

• C)- phonological awareness

• D)-  sentence structure

2- Spoken language differs from phonology representations given in a dictionary. For example, people say 'orright' for 'all right' because they speak :

 

• A)- ungrammatically and fluently

• B)- informally and spontaneously

• C)- normally and meaningfully

• D)- formally and accurately

3. ………….. is the study of the systems, patterns and functions of speech sounds in language.

 

• A)- phonotactics

• B)- phonetics

• C)- phonology

• D)- morphology

4……… is a term used in the study of suprasegmental phonology referring to the distinctive use of patterns of pitch.

• A)- Prominence

• B)- Stress

• C)- Intonation

• D)- Quality

5. Which suffix of the following words doesn’t receive the primary stress?

• A)- Portuguese

• B)- comfortable

• C)- volunteer

• D)- picturesque

6. …………is the regular occurrence of prominent units in speech.

• A)- Elision

• B)- Rhythm

• C)- Assimilation

• D)- Intonation

7. …………….is the situation when a sound belonging to one word can cause changes in sounds belonging to neighboring words and become nearly alike.

• A)- Elision

• B)- Rhythm

• C)- Assimilation

• D)- Prominence

8…………. is an aspect of rapid and casual speech, it is the deletion of a sound(s) under certain circumstances, i.e. a phoneme may be realized as zero or have zero realization.

• A)- Elision

• B)- Rhythm

• C)- Assimilation

• D)- Intonation

9- The ……… tone gives a feeling of something routine, uninteresting or boring.

• A)- Falling

• B)- Rising

• C)- Level

• D)- Falling-rising

10. The………tone often suggests uncertainty or hesitation.

• A)- Falling

• B)- Rising

• C)- Rising-falling

• D)- Falling-rising