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Phonics terms

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

using the roof of your mouth

(a)  

2.

Refers to two or more consonants that appear together in a word, each consonant retaining it's own sound.

a)

Allophone

b)

plosives

c)

phoneme

d)

cluster

3.

What is a speech sound?

a)

phonetics

b)

phoneme

c)

consonant

d)

Vowel

4.

Labiodental is

a)

A sound in which the air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made

b)

The formal study of language and how it works

c)

involves both lips as the articulators

d)

Made with the lips and the teeth

5.

What is the study of speech sounds?

(a)  

6.

What is a sound in which air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made?

(a)  

7.

Bilabial is

a)

linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme

b)

involving both lips as the articulators

c)

a single sound represented by two letters

d)

is a speech sound

8.

What is linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme?

(a)  

9.

Velar is

(a)  

10.

Grapheme is

a)

Is a speech sound

b)

is the letter cluster that stands for one sound

c)

is the formal study of language and how it works

d)

the written representation of one sound

11.

What is a letter cluster that stands for one sound?

a)

allophone

b)

alveolar

c)

phonetics

d)

Digraph

12.

What is the sound in which the position of the mouth changes from one place to another as the sound is produced?

(a)  

13.

The formal study of language and how it works is

a)

linguistics

b)

consonant

c)

alveolar

d)

cluster

14.

A consonant is

a)

a sound in which the position of the mouth changes from one place to another as another sound is produced

b)

a sound in which the air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made

c)

a sound in which the air flow is cut off either partially or completely when the sound is produced

d)

a speech sound

15.

The ridge of the front of the mouth where the teeth arise is

(a)  

16.

Formed by narrowing the air channel and then forcing air through it is

a)

phoneme

b)

digraph

c)

fricatives

d)

blend

17.

Glides is

a)

sometimes called semi vowels because they are formed in similar ways as vowels

b)

formed by interrupting the airflow slightly, but no friction results

c)

a sound in which the air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made

d)

a letter cluster that stands for one sound

18.

When produced, the vocal chords vibrate

(a)  

19.

is a sound produced by the sequence of a stop followed by a fricative

(a)  

20.

plosives is

a)

linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme

b)

formed by interrupting the airflow slightly, but no friction results

c)

the formal study of language and how it works

d)

formed by closing or blocking off the air flow and then exploding a puff of air

21.

the combined sound that the cluster stands for is

a)

alveolar

b)

blend

c)

nasals

d)

diphthong

22.

What is formed by interrupting the airflow slightly, but no friction results

(a)  

23.

When produced, there is no vibration

a)

velar

b)

nasals

c)

unvoiced

d)

grapheme

24.

what is formed when the mouth is closed, forcing the air through the nose?

a)

blend

b)

Nasals

c)

bilabial

d)

labiodental