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Phonemes and Allophones

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What is an allophone?

a)

The various ways that an allophone can be pronounced

b)

A set of speech sounds that are perceived to be variants of the same sound

c)

Two sounds with different meanings

d)

All of the above

2.

A sound given in square brackets is a/an __________

a)

Allophone

b)

Phoneme

3.

What is a Phonetic Environment?

a)

A non-contrastive sound

b)

Each member of a phoneme set

c)

The words that come before and after a sound in a word

4.

How many phonemes are there in English?

(a)  

5.

Tick all the words that contain nasalized vowels?

a)

Man

b)

King

c)

Bomb

d)

Pit

6.

The posterior movement of the tongue placement in the direction of the velum for lateral sounds is referred to as ________

a)

Palatalization

b)

Velarization

c)

Lateralization

d)

Dentalization

7.

An articulatory variation in which the tongue approaches the palate is referred to as ______________

a)

Dentalization

b)

Palatalization

c)

Velarization

d)

Lateralization

8.

Allophones of a single phoneme are ______ phonetically similar.

a)

always

b)

never

9.

Every language has the same number of phoneme consonants.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Allophone is the variation of sound that distinguishes meanings.

a)

True

b)

False