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WorksheetsTests anglais Phonetics and Intonation (A-B-C)
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 6hrs 50mins
The english word which correspond to the following phonetic transcription : /ˈmʌŋki/
monkey
donkey
key
" A human speech sound produced when the breath flows out throught the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips." This is a definition of :
Phonemes
Consonants
Vowels
Morphemes
The definition of a diphtong is :
A speech sound produced when the breath is at least partly obstructed.
A speech sound produced when the breath flows out throught the mouth without being blocked.
A speech sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllabe.
A speech sound formed by the combination of three vowels in a single syllabe.
"The music of the language : rythhm, accent, intonation, tone, stress. The speaker's emotions, irony, sarcasm, etc." This is a definition of :
Phonetics
Stress
Intonation
Prosody
In English, content words are stresses, function word are unstressed.
True
False
Prophetic syllables are always stressed.
True
False
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /ɔɪ/ ?
Owl
Boy
Horse
Phone
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /aʊ/ ?
Car
Phone
Bike
Owl
The fact of intensifying a particular syllable in a word refers to :
Stress
Prosody
Phonetics
Intonation
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which vowel symbol was used to help pronounce the first and final syllables of the word "bird" ?
/ɜ:/
/e/
/ɔ/
/ə/
The study of the sounds of a human speech refers to :
Phonetics
Semantics
Acoustics
Linguistics
In the sentence "I was going to tell you", how many times does the schwa sound occur ?
3
4
2
1
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /əʊ/ ?
Bike
Phone
Owl
Tourist
In the following : "Wait - You're breaking up." and "Wait ! You're breaking up ?!", which sentence deals with a divorce ?
Neither sentence
Both sentences
The first sentence
The second sentence
The english word which correspond to the following phonetic transcription : /θʌm/
Dumb
Thumb
Numb
In English, yes-no questions use falling intonation.
True
False
The english word which correspond to the following phonetic transcription : [ ˈsɪŋɪŋ ]
Sin
Sing
Singing
What is the only phonetic symbol with a name ?
Schwe
Schwa
Schwi
Schwo
The english word which correspond to the following phonetic transcription : /ˈʃaʊə/
Shower
Show
Snow
In a word containing a prophetic syllable, we stress the syllable just before it.
True
False
" A human speech sound produced when the breath is at least partly obstructed (by the teeth, tongue, or lips)" - This is a definition of :
Vowel
Phoneme
Morpheme
Consonant
Which of the following words are an exception to the prophetic syllable rule ?
Arabic, arithmetic, catholic
Incredible, desirable, impossible
Variety, superiority, ambiguity
Patient, experience, inefficiency
In "Sally knows Peter, doesn't she ?", if the speaker is just chatting (not checking) what type of intonation will be used for the question tag ?
Rising
Falling
Fall-rise
Rise-fall
Affirmative statements such as "You'd have to be pretty generous to give 1.3 million to someone that you hardly know" use which type of intonation model ?
Rise-fall
Falling
Fall-rise
Rising
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /ɒ/ ?
Car
Horse
Clock
Shoe
There are 26 letters in the Latin alphabet but how many phonemic sounds are there in the English language ?
40
44
41
42
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /ɪ/ ?
Fish
Cat
Tree
Car
"The division of speech into units; highlighting specific words, vowels or syllables." - This is a definition of :
Prosody
Phonetics
Intonation
Stress
A phoneme is :
A minimal unit of stress in a language.
A minimal unit of lexical meaning in a language.
A minimal unit of a grammatical meaning in a language.
A minimal unit of sound in a language.
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /aɪ/ ?
Owl
Train
Cat
Bike
In standard English pronunciation, how many different types of vowels are there ?
2
3
1
4
Indicate the stressed syllable in the word "relationship" ?
3
4
2
1
The english word which correspond to the following phonetic transcription : [tʃɛs].
Chance
Chess
Face
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /ɪə/ ?
Ear
Owl
Chair
Tourist
In the following sentence, "I didn't say we should kill him.", which word should be stressed in order to convey the meaning "I only meant to frighten him." ?
we
didn't
say
kill
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which vowel symbol was used to help pronounce the first and final syllables of the word "bull" ?
/ə/
/u:/
/ʌ/
/ʊ/
The following languages are stressed-timed (the rythmic impression is based on the regular timing of stress peaks, not syllables).
Swahili and Russian
English and German
French and Italian
Urdu and Hindi
Falling intonation means :
how the voice falls on every stressed syllable of a phrase
how the voice falls on the middle stressed syllable of a phrase
how the voice falls onthe initial stressed syllable of a phrase
how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of a phrase
In the following sentence "They can come on Friday", the positive form of "can" in pronounced :
/can/
/kən/
/kan/
/kæn/
A morpheme is :
A minimal unit of stress in a language.
A minimal unit of lexical meaning in a language.
A minimal unit of a grammatical meaning in a language.
A minimal unit of sound in a language.
In the sentence "This exercice takes a lot of time", how many times does the schwa sound occur ?
1
4
3
2
What is the symbol for the weakest, most unstressed, and most common sound in English ?
/e/
/θ/
/ə/
/ɔ/
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /ɔ:/ ?
Clock
Car
Boy
Horse
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /æ/ ?
Clock
Bike
Cat
Car
Which of the following groups of words typically undergoes a process of vowel deletion in English ?
Psychology, sociology, education
Researcher, statistics, probability
Separate, different, camera
Specific, define, constantly
The phonetic symbol which denotes a long vowel is :
:
>
ː
_
In bisyllabic homographs which syllable should we stress if we refer to a verb ?
Neither
The first
Both
The second
In "It's a beautiful town, isn't it ?", if the speaker is checking (not chatting) what type of intonation will be used for the question tag ?
Rise-fall
Falling
Fall-rise
Rising
In English, the following are "Function" words :
Nouns and lexical verbs
Adjectives
Auxiliary verbs and determiners
Adverbs
How many syllables are there in the following words : separate, different and chocolate ?
1
4
3
2
In bisyllabic homographs which syllable should we stress if we refer to a noun ?
Both
Neither
The second
The first
In the following sentence, "I love your mother's cooking.", which word should we stressed in order to emphasis how I feel about her cooking ?
love
I
cooking
your mother's
In the word "tomorrow" decide where in the word the schwa sound occur ?
rr
to
ow
mo
Which of the different types of vowels named below is false ?
Diphtongs
Short monophtongs
Short diphtongs
Long monophtongs
With reference to the phonetic symbole sheet completed in lecture, which vowel symbol was used to help pronounce the first syllable of the word "tourist" ?
/ə/
/uː/
/ʊ/
/ʊə/
In the word "difficult" where in the word the schwa sound occur ?
fi
cult
di
ic
With reference to the phonetic symbole sheet completed in lecture, which vowel symbol was used to help pronounce the first and the final syllables of the word "computer" ?
/ə/
/ʌ/
/ɔ/
/e/
Paying particular attention to the pauses, in which of the following propositions is John the idiot ?
John said the boss is (pause) an idiot.
John said (pause) the boss is an idiot.
John (pause) said the boss (pause) is an idiot.
John said the boss is an idiot.
Indicate the stressed syllable in the word "pediatrician" ?
5
4
1
3
In the following sentence, "I didn't say we should kill him.", which word should be stressed in order to convey the meaning "We were supposed to kill his brother " ?
supposed
I
we
him
In English, wh-questions use falling intonation.
True
False
Indicate the stressed syllable in the word "characteristic".
4
2
1
5
In the sentence "The book is about pronunciation.", how many times does the schwa sound occur ?
4
3
1
2
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /eɪ/ ?
Owl
Bike
Train
Phone
In English, the following are "Content" words :
Conjunctions
Nouns and lexical verbs
Auxiliary verbs
Determiners and prepositions
Which of the following syllables is prophetic ?
-ness
-tion
-ship
-ful
With reference to the phonetic symbol sheet completed in lecture, which word (image) was used to help you learn the vowel symbol /eə/ ?
Egg
Ear
Owl
Chair
Indicate the prophetic syllable in the word "opportunity".
por
ity
tun
op
If you want to speed up when you speak in English, you have to ...
shorten the lenght of all the syllables
speak quicker
verbalise only the important words such as nouns and verbs
reduce the unstressed syllables even more by "schwa-ing" them
In the following sentence "They can't come on Friday", the negative form of "can't" in pronounced :
/ka:nt/
/kant/
/kænt/
/kənt/
