Warm-up Lesson #2

Vowels are longer before a voiced consonant.

• True

• False

In words like job and shop, Americans generally release the final stop sounds.

• True

• False

Ice has a voiced consonant sound, while eyes has a voiceless consonant sound.

• True

• False

The consonant sound /w/ has two places of articulation: bilabial and velar.

• True

• False

When describing consonants, it is relevant to include four aspects: voicing, lip position, place of articulation, and manner of articulation.

• True

• False

Which of the following consonant sounds is alveolar?

• /m/

• /ð/

• /k/

• /z/

Which of the following sounds is labiodental?

• /w/

• /f/

• /ɵ/

• /b/

When the back part of the tongue touches the soft palate, the resulting sound is __.

• velar

• dental

• palatal

• alveolar

The vowel sound in bag is longer than the same vowel sound in back.

• True

• False

When a stop is followed by a fricative, the manner of articulation is called __.

• approximant

• affricate

• bilabial

• nasal