Phonetics Quiz

What is the unit of Phonetics?

• instinctive speech sound

• phoneme

• allophone

• Minimal pairs

• speech sound

Sonority theory of the syllable was put forward by:

• O. Yesperson

• N.I. Linkin

• L.V. Shcherba

• I.A. Vassiliev

• B. Block

What resonator mechanism is responsible for the articulation of vowels?

• Unusually resonator

• Nasal resonator

• Resonator mechanisms are not responsible for it

• Resonator mechanisms with nasal resonator

• Oral resonator and the vocal cords

Pronunciation of a syllable in a word on different pitch levels and with different pitch directions is called:

• Dynamic

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Lyrical

• Logical

What are the English nasal consonants?

• [m], [n], [η]

• [m], [p], [d]

• [p], [b], [d], [t], [k]

• [g], [p], [l]

• [m], [d], [l], [t], [r]

The origin of the word ‘…’ is a Greek ‘phona’

• a sound and a voice

• a sonorant

• acoustics

• articulation

• vowel

Phonemic awareness is:

• all in the above

• a strong predictor of future reading success

• a sub skill of phonological awareness

• a foundational reading skill

• a unit of syllable

There are _______ sounds in the English language:

• more than 40

• exactly 60

• more than 80

• more than 70

• more than 90

Phoneme blending is:

• harder than onset and rime

• easier than syllable blending

• easier than identifying rhyming words

• easier than phoneme addition, deletion, or substitution

• easier than phoneme

The definition of phoneme is, "The smallest part of _________ language."

• spoken

• all of this

• nonformal

• formal

• negative