Review chapters III and IV.

1.Sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air passage narrowing the oral cavity

• Vowels

• Consonants

• Diphthongs

• None of these

2.Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue placed against the upper teeth are called___________?

• Dental

• Labio-dental

• Bilabial

• Alveolar

3.A monosyllabic vowel combination of a diphthong and the weak vowel /ə/ is called

• Vowels

• Consonants

• Diphthongs

• Triphthong

4.______________regards the phonemes as family of sound satisfying certain conditions

• The physical view

• The functional view

• The mentalist view

• The abstract view

5.The sounds in which the articulators are brought so close together and the air escapes through the narrow passage between them producing an audible friction or hissing sound

• Affricates

• Fricatives

• Laterals

• Nasal Sounds

6./p/, /t/ and / d / are examples of

• Nasal sounds

• Fricatives

• Lateral

• None of these

7.Which of the following words does not contains a close vowel?

• Sit

• Shoe

• Bird

• Pull

8.The one rolled consonant in English is

• /m/

• /r/

• /k/

• /l/

9.All phonemes can be regarded as being made up of a number of simultaneous properties, which are known as______________?

• Non-distinctive features

• Distinctive features

• Minimal Pairs

• Sound sequence

10.Which of the following is FALSE?

• The English language has 20 vowels and 24 consonants.

• The  allophones of a phoneme form a set of sounds that change the meaning of a word.

• Pirate and pilot are a minimal pair.

• Phonemic transcription is based on the principle of one symbol per phoneme.