WorksheetsPhonemes and Allophones
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
1. What is an allophone?
The various ways that an allophone can be pronounced
A set of speech sounds that are perceived to be variants of the same sound
Two sounds with different meanings
All of the above
A sound given in square brackets is a/an __________
Allophone
Phoneme
What is a Phonetic Environment?
A non-contrastive sound
Each member of a phoneme set
The words that come before and after a sound in a word
How many phonemes are there in English?
(a)
Tick all the words that contain nasalized vowels?
Man
King
Bomb
Pit
The posterior movement of the tongue placement in the direction of the velum for lateral sounds is referred to as ________
Palatalization
Velarization
Lateralization
Dentalization
An articulatory variation in which the tongue approaches the palate is referred to as ______________
Dentalization
Palatalization
Velarization
Lateralization
Allophones of a single phoneme are ______ phonetically similar.
always
never
Every language has the same number of phoneme consonants.
True
False
Allophone is the variation of sound that distinguishes meanings.
True
False
