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WorksheetsPhonetics Quiz
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 5mins
1. What does phonetics involve?
A. The production and reception of oral communication, the organs of the speech, the articulation of sounds and the transmission and reception of sounds
B. The meaning of messages in spoken communication in different contexts.
C. The factors that influence in the comprehension of messages in spoken communication
D. All of the above
2. What are the main organs to produce a speech?
A. lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue, the body of the tongue, the back of the tongue,the vocal cords and the nasal cavity.
B. the lips and the tongue
C. vocal cords, tongue and lips
D. All of the above
3. How can we link sounds?
A. With final consonant and beginning vowel
B. With vowel and vowel
C. With final consonant and beginning vowel, with vowel and vowel, linking as /ou/ and /u/
D. When the last consonant of a word is p or t
4. In which question does falling intonation take place?
A. Do you have any cats at home ?
B. Is she responsible enough in life ?
C. Where did Harry get that ?
D. Would you like to go dancing tonight?
5. What is stress in phonetics?
A. It is the sensation of being exhausted
B. It is the emphasis put into syllables
C. It is the division of words into syllables
D. It is the emphasis we put on syllables or words, depending on the idea
6. How many vowel sounds are there in the English language?
A. Twelve sounds
B. Twenty sounds
c. Fifteen sounds
D. Sixteen sounds
7. When producing nasal sounds, the air must go out through…
A. The mouth
B. The mouth and the nose
C. The nose
D. The air must not escape
8.
8. Minimal pairs have similar...
A. SOUND
B. CONTEXT
C. MEANING
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
9. When talking about the final ed pronunciation, what kinds of consonants do we need to take into account?
A. Voiced and voiceless
B. Fricative sounds
C. Glottal sounds
D. Strong consonants
10. Glottal stop sounds are commonly found in
A. American English accent
B. British accent
C. Australian accent
D. English in general
11. What is the accurate position of the tongue when producing the r sound?
A. The tip of the tongue touches the palatar
B. The tongue rests in normal position
C.The tongue touches the teeth
