ling104 true/false

VOT (Voice onset time) is typically longer in voiced stops than in voiceless stops

• True

• False

Clicks start with two simultaneous closures

• True

• False

All speech sounds are produced with air coming out of your lungs

• True

• False

Lateral fricatives are impossible sounds

• True

• False

All fricatives sibilants

• True

• False

Answer explanation

It's the opposite way around, all sibilants are fricatives

The automatic fall of the mean pitch level (compared to the previous syllable) is referred to as downstep.

• True

• False

In English, when two syllables that normally have primary stress occur next to each other, the first syllable loses its primary stress.

• True

• False

The word psycholinguistics has one primary stress on the penultimate syllable and two secondary stresses.

• true

• false

The information structure of a sentence can affect where the tonic stress is.

• true

• false

In Turkish, polar questions have a rising intonation pattern.

• true

• false