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Phonetic quize

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is IPA stand for?

a)

International Phonetic Alphabet

b)

Vowel

c)

Sound

d)

Schwa

2.

The science of speech sounds, speech deserves to be better understood.

a)

Acoustic

b)

Phonetics

c)

Perceptual phonetic

d)

auditory

3.

What are the Active Articulators?

a)

Lower lip and the tongue

b)

Soft palate

4.

What are the Passive Articulators?

a)

Upper lips, Upper teeth, the alveolar ridge, hard palate, the soft palate and pharynx

b)

Voice, pharynx

5.

What are the passive articulator again?

(a)  

6.

Most speech sounds, and all normal English sounds, are made with egreesive lung air.

a)

Egressive Pulmonic Consonantal Sound

b)

Egressive

c)

Lung

7.

The smallest constrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning.

a)

Phoneme

b)

Pharynx

c)

Voice box

8.

Vocal tract, and in order to learn how the sounds of speech are produced it is necessary to become familiar with the different parts of the vocal tract.

a)

IPA

b)

Articulators

c)

Air

9.

What are the seven speech organs/articulators

(a)  

10.

We produce voicing with intensity for shouting.

a)

Variations in intensity

b)

Variation in Frequency

c)

Variation in Quality

11.

If the vocal folds vibrate rapidly, the voicing is at a high frequency .

a)

Variation in intensity

b)

Variation in frequency

c)

Variation in Quality

12.

We can produce different-sounding voice qualities, such as those we might call harsh.

a)

Variation in intensity

b)

Variation in Frequency

c)

Variation in Quality

13.

Refer to the opening between the vocal folds.

a)

Glottis

b)

Sound

c)

Vibration

14.

Larynx = voice box

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What is two organ vowel?

a)

Tongue and Lips

b)

Sound and glottis

c)

Air and tongue

16.

Bilabial, Labio-dental, Dental, Alveolar, Palato-alveolar, Palatal, Velar, Glottal

a)

Voicing

b)

Place of articulation

c)

Manner of articulation

17.

Which of the following is pronounced with a dipthong in RP?

a)

Weep

b)

Wipe

c)

Walk

d)

Work

18.

Which of the following consists of two phonemes?

a)

Chat

b)

Free

c)

Low

d)

East

19.

The consonant sounds that is made with a narrow opening between the articulators are known as_______ sounds.

a)

Plosive

b)

Affricate

c)

Fricative

d)

Approximant

20.

Which of the following words is pronounced with a triphthong in RP?

a)

Tower

b)

Snow

c)

There

d)

Oak

21.

Which of the following is true about the schwa?

a)

The second vowel of triphtongs.

b)

The first vowel of dipthongs.

c)

The vowel in the close front area.

d)

The most frequently occurring vowel in

English

22.

1.) The vowel in 'sheer' /--/ and 'sure'/--/- are closing diphthongs.

(a)  

23.

2.) The vowels in 'power' 'hour' and 'flower' are pronounced as /aua/.

(a)  

24.

3.) The structure of the larynx is made of thyroid and cricoid cartilages.

(a)  

25.

4.) The vocal folds vibrate for all vowel sounds.

(a)  

26.

5.) The vocal folds are the two thick flaps of muscle in the larynx.

(a)  

27.

6.) The larynx is the tube that begins above the larynx and ends at the mouth and nostrils.

(a)  

28.

7.) A pure vowel is a sound that consists of a movement or glide from one vowel to another.

(a)  

29.

8.) The larynx is the voice box

(a)