IPA quiz

1. What are the three main criteria used to classify consonant sounds in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?

• a) Voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation

• b) Stress, intonation, and tone

• c) Tongue height, advancement, and rounding

2. Which IPA symbol represents the voiced alveolar fricative sound?

• a) /p/

• b) /z/

• c) /t/

3. How are vowel sounds organized in the IPA?

• a) Based on their manner of articulation

• b) Based on their tongue height and advancement

• c) Based on their voicing

4. What do suprasegmental features in the IPA represent?

• a) Fine phonetic details

• b) Prosodic aspects of speech such as stress, intonation, and tone

• c) Place of articulation

5. What do diacritics in the IPA indicate?

• a) The base symbols used for representing consonant sounds

• b) Extensions and additional symbols used for representing specific sounds found in certain languages or dialects

• c) Fine phonetic details that may not be captured by the basic symbols