MULTIPLE CHOICE: UNIT 1

The production of different speech sounds through the use of the organs of speech is known as....

• assimilation

• dissimilation

• articulation

• syllabification

phonetics deals with how speech sounds are perceived by the listener.

• Articulatory

• Acoustic

• Experimental

• Auditory

phonetics deals with the transmission of speech sounds through the air?

• Articulatory

• Acoustic

• Experimental

• Auditory

Since....is easily understood in all English speaking countries, it is adapted as the teaching norm in the school and higher educational institutions.

• RP

• Broad Australian

• Narrow American

• Narrow Australian

The term....is applied for the study of the more abstract, the more psychological aspects of speech.

• phonetics

• phonology

• grammar

• semantics

Which of the following is not considered as (an) articulator(s)?

• the tongue

• the lips

• the velum

• The ears

deals with how speech sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived.

• Grammar

• Phonotactics

• Phonetics

• Textlinguistics

Which of the following is not an aspect of the speech sounds as a physical event?

• Physiological

• Acoustic

• Articulatory

• Comprehensive

Besides having the physical properties, the speech sounds also have.....function when they are used as distinctive units of sounds in a language.

• thematic

• stylistic

• affective

• distinctive

is the study or description of the distinctive sound units of a language and their relationship to one another.

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Pragmatics