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Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the correct description of /w/?
voiced, labio-dental approximant
voiced weak labio-dental approximant
voiced bilabial approximant
voiced weak bilabial approximant
What is the correct description of /ʃ/?
voiceless strong alveolar affricate
voiceless strong palato-alveolar affricate
voiceless strong alveolar fricative
voiceless strong palato-alveolar fricative
Which is the correct description of /ʔ/?
voiceless glottal plosive
voiceless glottal fricative
strong glottal plosive
strong glottal fricative
Which is the correct description of /r/?
voiced weak alveolar approximant
voiced alveolar approximant
voiced weak post-alveolar approximant
voiced post-alveolar approximant
Which is the correct description of /h/?
voiced glottal fricative
voiceless glottal fricative
voiced velar fricative
voiceless velar fricative
What is true about /θ/? More answers possible.
It's strong.
It's an obstruent.
It's a fricative
It's voiced
It's dental
What is true about /dʒ/? More answers possible
It's a fricative
It's weak
It's post-alveolar
It's a sonorant
It's voiced
What is true about /l/? More answers possible
It's an approximant
It's a lateral
It is voiceless in the word clear
It is dark in the word hello
It is alveolar in the word play
What is true about /w,b,m/? More answers possible.
They are all sonorants
They are all weak
They are all bilabial
They are all voiced
What is true about /ʒ,s,h,v,tʃ/? More answers possible.
They are all fricatives.
They are all voiceless.
They all have friction.
They are all obstruents
What is true about /g,b,v,dʒ/? More answers possible.
They are all weak
They are all plosives
They are all voiced
They are all obstruents
None of them have friction
What is true about /l,s,n,d/
They are all voiced
They are all alveolar
They are all sonorants
The tongue is involved in all of them.
What is true about sonorants? More answers possible
Air escapes freely
They are neither weak nor strong
They are neither voiced nor voiceless
The soft palate is down.
There is no obstructon of the air stream
What is true about affricates? More answers possible.
They are obstruents
There is friction
They are neither weak nor strong
They are voiced
The air stream is temporarily blocked
What is true about palato-alveolar sounds? More answers possible.
They are fricatives
They are affricates
They are voiced
They are strong
There is friction
What is true about the soft palate?
It lowers to open the nasal cavity
Its other name is the glottis
Only voiced sounds are made there
It is immediately behind the hard palate
