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Phonology

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the study of the acoustic, auditory characteristics of speech sounds and physical properties/features of human speech sounds?

a)

Phonology

b)

Phonemes

c)

Phonetics

d)

Phonics

2.

It deals with the production of speech sounds. It simply refers to the utterance of speech sounds which may otherwise be identified as enunciation.

a)

Acoustic Phonetics

b)

Articulatory Phonetics

c)

Auditory Phonetics

d)

Autonomy Phonetics

3.

It basically covers the sounds of vowels and consonants

a)

Segmental Phonology

b)

Segment Phonology

c)

Supranatural phonology

d)

Suprasegmental phonology

4.

What is a way of speaking a language? It relates to a significant utterance or speech pattern resulting from the consequences and pauses of stress and pitch accent.

a)

Intonation

b)

Stress

c)

Accent

d)

Juncture

5.

What is the branch of linguistics that investigates the ways in which sounds are used systematically in different languages to form words and utterances?

a)

Phonetics

b)

Phonics

c)

Phonotactics

d)

Phonology

6.

What refers to the study of the perception of speech sounds, how such sounds may properly be perceived by the hearers with reference to distance and space?

a)

Articulatory Phonetics

b)

Autonomy Phonetics

c)

Auditory Phonetics

d)

Acoustic Phonetics

7.

Phonetics has ___ subdisciplines.

a)

6

b)

5

c)

4

d)

3

8.

Any word may be emphasized to show meaning.

a)

Rising intonation

b)

Falling intonation

c)

Non-final intonation

d)

Conditional clause (Rising- falling)

9.

What deals with the study of the physical production of speech sounds and how such sounds are properly transmitted?

a)

Acoustic Phonetics

b)

Articulatory Phonetics

c)

Auditory Phonetics

d)

Autonomy Phonetics

10.

What deals with the propriety of stress (intensity of sound or voice) and tone (pitch of sound or voice)?

a)

Segmental Phonology

b)

Suprasegmental Phonology

c)

Phonology

d)

Phonetics