Linguistics Exam Reviewer

Which of the following is a nasal alveolar stop?

• b

• d

• h

• n

What word formation process is involved in the word, hangry?

• acronymy

• blending

• clipping

• borrowing

How does one transcribe the word champion?

• [ˈtʃæmpjən]

• [ˈtʃæmpjεn]     

• [ˈtʃɅmpjεn]     

• [ˈtʃmpjIn]  

In which syllable can we find the primary stress of the word, pragmatic?

• first syllable

• second syllable

• third syllable

• first and second syllables

Which phonological process captures a child’s pronunciation of animal as aminal?

• backing

• cluster reduction

• metathesis

• denasalization

Which term refers to a subpart of a higher unit?

• constituent

• phone

• morpheme

• tree diagram

A. Phonetics is the study of the sound system of any given language: the organization of a language’s sounds and their relationships to one another.

    B. Phonology is also the study of speech sounds more generally, how they are produced and how they are perceived.

• Both statements are TRUE.

• Both statements are FALSE.

• Only statement A is TRUE.

• Only statement B is TRUE.

Which of the following vowels can be described as mid front unrounded lax ?

• a

• ε

• u

• i

Which of the following skills is an exercise of phonological awareness?

• Do oddity tasks

• Blend or split syllables

• Perform phoneme manipulation

• Perform phonemic segmentation

Which of of the following is NOT a minimal pair?

• ship / sheep

• fort / thought

• pilot / pirate

• mist / myth