English Phonology Quiz

What is the study of the sound system of languages called?

• Phonetics

• Syntax

• Phonology

• Morphology

Which branch of phonetics is concerned with the reception of sounds?

• Auditive phonetics

• Articulatory phonetics

• Acoustic phonetics

• Phonemics

What is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language called?

• Minimal pair

• Allophone

• Phoneme

• Phone

What are the realisations of phonemes called?

• Minimal pairs

• Allophones

• Phonetics

• Phones

What is the term for two words that differ in only one sound?

• Allophone

• Phoneme

• Phone

• Minimal pair

Which level of language involves differences in meaning arrived at by changes in word order or the addition/subtraction of words from sentences?

• Pragmatics

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Semantics

What is the area of language concerned with the use of language in specific situations?

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Pragmatics

• Morphology

What is the term for the meaning of sentences in practical use?

• Utterance meaning

• Speech act

• Abstract meaning

• Proposition

Which branch of phonetics is concerned with the emission of sounds?

• Acoustic phonetics

• Phonemics

• Articulatory phonetics

• Auditive phonetics

What is the study of the physical properties of speech production called?

• Phonology

• Phonetics

• Phonemics

• Morphology