Quiz on Manner of Articulation and Sounds

Which speech segments are produced with a complete closure at some point in the vocal tract, and the air pressure can be released at once?

• Approximants

• Stops or Plosives

• Nasals

• Fricatives

What type of sounds are produced by forcing the air stream through a narrowed passage resulting in audible friction?

• Affricates

• Trills

• Laterals

• Flaps

Which speech segments are formed by an obstruction along the center of the vocal tract, allowing air to escape on one or two sides of the contact?

• Flaps

• Laterals

• Nasals

• Approximants

When the vocal cords vibrate, what type of sound is produced?

• Fricatives

• Voiced

• Voiceless

• Approximants

Which sounds are produced by a series of rapid, intermittent closures made by the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge?

• Nasals

• Flaps

• Trills

• Approximants

/p/ is bilabial, voiceless and

• lateral

• affricate

• stop/plosive

• fricative

/t/ is alveolar, voiceless and

• lateral

• affricate

• stop/plosive

• fricative

/f/ is labiodental, voiceless and

• lateral

• affricate

• stop/plosive

• fricative