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consonant

Total questions: 85

Worksheet time: 48mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Affricates begin as fricatives and end as plosives

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Fricatives are characterized by a hissing sound.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Post-alveolar consonants involve the tip of the tongue and the hard palate

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Plosives are continuants.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The soft palate is raised in all consonants except nasals.

a)

true

b)

false

6.

the final consonant sound in "laugh" is a

a)

labio-dental

b)

glottal

c)

velar

d)

bilabial

7.

the different between /p/ and /t/ is

a)

voicing

b)

place of articulation

c)

position of soft palate

d)

manner of articulation

8.

which word contains an affricate?

a)

tip

b)

job

c)

back

d)

teeth

9.

which word does not have a fricative?

a)

should

b)

map

c)

flower

d)

teeth

10.

the underline sound in " mother" is a

a)

voiceless dental fricative

b)

voiced dental fricative

c)

voiceless dental affricative

d)

voiced dental affricate

11.

which word contains a velar?

a)

box

b)

know

c)

press

d)

what

12.

the difference between /ʃ/ and /tʃ/

a)

voicing

b)

place of articulation

c)

position of soft palate

d)

manner of articulation

13.

which word contains a palatal?

a)

yellow

b)

job

c)

him

d)

rent

14.

plosives

a)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst

b)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and rapid release in a gradual reales of the airflow

c)

the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough

d)

the air escapes along the sides of the tongue

e)

the air escape through a small passage

15.

affricates

a)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst

b)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the airflow

c)

the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough

d)

the air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the tongue

16.

approximants

a)

produced by a completeclosure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst

b)

produced by a completeclosure of the oral passage and gradual release of the airflow

c)

he articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough

d)

the air escapes through a small passage the air escapes along the sides of the tongue

17.

Fricatives

a)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a rapid release in a burst

b)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the airflow

c)

the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough

d)

the air escapes through a small passage

e)

the air escapes along the sides of the tongue

18.

lateral

a)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and rapid release in a busrt

b)

produced by a complete closure of the oral passage and a gradual release of the airflow

c)

the articulators approach each other but not narrowly enough

d)

the air escapes along the sides of the tongue

19.

which of the underlined sounds is a fortis consonant

a)

pleasure

b)

nature

c)

eyes

d)

of

20.

fortis consonants lengthen preceding vowels

a)

true

b)

false

21.

the initial consonant in "cook" is aspirated

a)

true

b)

false

22.

the friction noise of lenis fricatives is louder than that of fortis fricatives

a)

true

b)

false

23.

sound in which tip of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge are called palatal consonants

a)

true

b)

false

24.

which of the followings contains a labiodental consonant

a)

though

b)

cough

c)

smile

d)

high

25.

speech sounds are called

a)

phonemes

b)

phonetics

c)

phonology

d)

phone

e)

allophones

26.

speech sounds are called

a)

phonemes

b)

phonetics

c)

phonology

d)

phone

e)

allophones

27.

the study of human speech sounds in a langue that form systematized patterns is called...

a)

phonetics

b)

phonology

c)

phonetics and phonology

d)

articulators

28.

what is the same about the sounds of P&B ?

a)

They are biabial plosive

b)

they are alveolar plosive

c)

they are velar plosive

29.

how is B different from P

a)

the air goes through the nose

b)

the air is more restricted as it leaves the mouth

c)

the air vibrates in the throat

30.

how is /n different from /d/?

a)

the air goes through the nose

b)

the air is more restricted as it leaves the mouth

c)

the air vibrates in the throat

31.

what are the same about sound sof /n/ and /d/?

a)

they are bilabial sounds

b)

they are alveolar sounds

c)

they are velar sounds

32.

.....refers to the type of contruction the organ and place of articulation produce for the realization of a particular consonant

a)

place of articulation

b)

vocal tract

c)

oral cavity

d)

manner of articulation

33.

consonant produced with the velum lowered so that the air can pass freely through the nasal cavity

a)

lateral

b)

slide

c)

stops

d)

nasals

34.

partial blockage

a)

stop plosive

b)

fricative

c)

affricative

d)

glottal

35.

which word has two voiced consonant?

a)

side

b)

tall

c)

big

36.

phonetics is study of human speech sounds

a)

true

b)

false

37.

criteria for the description of consonant are?

a)

lip rounding

b)

noise component

c)

voicing

d)

place of articulation

e)

manner of articulation

38.

plosive, fricatives, nasals, approximants are all manners of articulation. which group pf sounds are always voiced ?

a)

plosives

b)

fricatives

c)

nasals

d)

approximants

e)

none of above

39.

what is the different between a nasal and a plosive ?

a)

the position of the velum

b)

lip rounding

c)

the position of the tongue

d)

voicing

40.

a plosive and africative differ in...

a)

the position of the velum

b)

total & partial obstruction of the air-stream

c)

noise consonant

d)

height of the tongue

41.

a fricative and an affricative differ in..

a)

pressure phase and friction phase

b)

place articulation

c)

manner of articulation

d)

nothing

42.

a voiced and voiceless sound differ in...

a)

direction of the air stream

b)

aspiration

c)

there is no difference

d)

vocal cord action

43.

how are vowels differnt from consonants?

a)

they are spoken further back in the mouth

b)

they can occupy the nucleus of a syllable

c)

they are always nasal

d)

they are always voiced

44.

the following are distinctive features of consonants except

a)

place of articulation

b)

vocal backness

c)

manner of articulation

d)

voicing

45.

how does phonology differ from phonetics ?

a)

phonology requires a PhD to study it

b)

phonetics is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation

c)

phonology is only concerned with speech sounds in isolation

d)

they are the same

46.

sound that is produced is when vocal cords is vibrate is

a)

voiced

b)

voiceless

c)

palatal

47.

sounds produced by partially or completely blocking air in its passage from the lungs through the vocal tract is

a)

vowels

b)

consonant

c)

diphthong

d)

tripthong

48.

the branch of phonetics that study the hearing and reception of speech sounds is

a)

acoustic phonetics

b)

auditory phonentics

c)

articulatory phonentics

49.

the scientific study of the production, transmission and reception of speech sound is

a)

phonetics

b)

phonology

c)

morphology

50.

the term labio-dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the lower lip towards the upper teeth

a)

true

b)

false

51.

[z, v, θ] the production of these sounds involes a vibration of the vocal cords

a)

false

b)

true

52.

[w,k, l] the production of these sounds involves a movement of the body of the tongue in the direction of the velum

a)

true

b)

false

53.

the term dental refers to an obstruction caused by movement of the lower lip towards the upper teeth

a)

true

b)

false

54.

approximants are produced by two articulators coming close together, but not close enough to cause friction

a)

true

b)

false

55.

[m, n, k] in the production of these sounds the velum is lowered.

a)

true

b)

false

56.

rasing the velum enables the air to flow through the nasal tract

a)

true

b)

false

57.

in the articulation of voiced sounds, the vocal cords are brought close together

a)

true

b)

false

58.

most speech sounds are made by allowing air to flow through the nose

a)

true

b)

false

59.

glottis refers to the space between the tongue and back of the throat

a)

true

b)

false

60.

broad transription is the transription of allophones

a)

true

b)

false

61.

it is always best to rely on English spelling when performing phonetic transcription

a)

true

b)

false

62.

"normally, vowels are produced with vocal fold vibration"

a)

true

b)

false

63.

"/o/ is best described as a mid, back, unrounded or neutral vowel"

a)

true

b)

false

64.

/u/ is is the lowest of the back vowels

a)

true

b)

false

65.

the vowel in word "side" is an example of monothong

a)

true

b)

false

66.

"/s/, the voiceless, alveolar, fricative, is characterized by weak noise energy due to the broad contriction formed between the blade of the tongue and the alveolar ridge"

a)

true

b)

false

67.

"/j/ described as a voiced, palatal, glide"

a)

true

b)

false

68.

the stop consonants are also know as the " plosives" due to the manner in which the air explodes from the mouth following the release of the consonant

a)

true

b)

false

69.

an affricate is a consonant sound formed by producing a stop phase followed by a fricative phase followed by a fricative phase

a)

true

b)

false

70.

/n/ is the only lateral consonant in English

a)

true

b)

false

71.

acoustic phonetics describes how speech organs articulate the human speech sounds

a)

true

b)

false

72.

nasal sounds are articulated when the soft palate is lowerd

a)

true

b)

false

73.

all nasal consonants are usually voiced

a)

true

b)

false

74.

nasal consonant require complete blockage somewhere in the oral cavity

a)

true

b)

false

75.

in English, (a)   is the highest vowel

76.

all English front vowels are unrounded

a)

true

b)

false

77.

vowels are not alway produced with voicing

a)

false

b)

true

78.

all vowels are typically (a)  

79.

(a)   is formed by letting the airstream flow around the sides of the tongue as the tip of the tongue make contact with the alveolar ridge

80.

when the velum is lowered and the airstream allowed to flow out through the nose the sound are describes as (a)  

81.

a combination of a brife stopping of the airstream with a release which causes some friction is called (a)  

82.

as the air is pushed through, a type of friction is produced and the resulting sounds are called (a)  

83.

the type of the consonant sound, resulting frome a blocking or stopping effect on the airstream, is called (a)  

84.

the location inside the mouth at which the contriction take place denotes the... of the articulation of the sound

(a)  

85.

(a)   phonetics focuses on the way in which sounds are heard and interpreted

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