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Fonologia Hata la 55

Total questions: 119

Worksheet time: 3570secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

What feature is incorrect in American accent?
ENGLISH: /p. t. k/ (voiceless plosives)

a)

Strongly aspirated in initial position (word)

b)

Unaspirated in middle position

c)

Released in final position

d)

Doesn´t exist

2.

The sounds which have double active and passive articulators are the:

a)

Homorganic

b)

Fricative

c)

Heterorganic

d)

Africative

3.

Spanish laterals have just one set of homorganic sounds.
Select one

a)

True

b)

False

4.

True or False

a)

True

b)

False

5.

True or False

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Are the words below transcribed properly?
<obra> <Carta>

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Is the transcription true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Nigeri is the country with the most languagues spoken in Middle East

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Are the words below transcribed properly? True or False

a)

True

b)

False

10.

All voiceless and voiced plosives are liquids and they are a similarity between English andSpanish

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Choose the correct
<second>, <first>, <against>, <attempts>, <Frank´s>, <glimpsed>

a)

a

b)

b

c)

c

d)

d

12.

The word < fraile> has a/an :

a)

non-adjacent glide

b)

Clusters

c)

Deletion

d)

Resyllabification

13.

Two-initial-consonant clusters (CCV-) share mostly the same liquants and liquids: / p, b, k, g, f / + / l /; / p, b,t, d, k, g, f / + ; happen in:

a)

Spanish and English

b)

English

c)

Spanish

d)

none

14.

It is a group of 2 or more adjacent consonants.

a)

Regressive Assimilation

b)

Resyllabification

c)

Epenthesis

d)

Clusters

15.

It is the insertion of a vowel or consonant segment within a word

a)

Aphesis

b)

Epenthesis

c)

Epithesis

d)

Resyllabification

16.

It is when a sound disappears or is not clearly articulated under certain circumstances

a)

Epenthesis

b)

Epithesis

c)

Deletion

d)

Resyllabification

17.

Marked on //

a)

Resyllabification

b)

Regressive Assimilation

c)

Aphesis

d)

Deletion

18.

It is the addition an extra consonant to the end of a word.

a)

Epithesis

b)

Juxtaposition

c)

Aphesis

d)

Metathesis

19.

• It is when the assimilated sound precedes and is affected by the conditioning sound.
• It is when the final and initial sounds mutually condition…

a)

Aphesis

b)

juxtaposition

c)

Regressive Assimilation

d)

Syncope

20.

It is the loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable

a)

PROGRESSIVE ASSIMILATION

b)

Aphesis

c)

Linking

d)

Metathesis

21.

Less satirical //

a)

Metathesis

b)

Linking

c)

Syncope

d)

Juxtaposition

22.

(It barely ever occurs with very young learners and beginner learners. It is a very uncommon process at this stage). It is the transposition of speech sounds

a)

Metathesis

b)

Linking

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Regressive Assimilation

23.

It is when the conditioning sound precedes and affects the following sound

a)

PROGRESSIVE ASSIMILATION

b)

Juxtaposition

c)

Deletion

d)

Clusters

24.

It is when an unstressed sound or syllable is dropped out in a multisyllabic word.

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Linking

c)

Syncope

d)

Aphesis

25.

It is the connecting of the final sound of a word to the initial sound of the next.

a)

Syncope

b)

Linking

c)

Epithesis

d)

Resyllabification

26.

Five-medial consonant orthographic clusters happen in:

a)

English

b)

Spanish

c)

English and Spanish

d)

None

27.

It is a group of two or more adjacent and dissimilar symbols which really stand for just one sound.

a)

Epithesis

b)

Digraph

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Metathesis

28.

The cluster that starts with a voiceless, apico alveolar, fricative just happens in:

a)

Spanish

b)

Spanish and English

c)

English

d)

None

29.

The Phonemic and phonetic distribution of ‘sorda, apico-alveolar, oral, fricative Select one:

a)

Total and free variation.

b)

Complementary and without variation.

c)

Total and total, complementary and free variation

d)

Complementary and conditional variation.

30.

The following clusters barely ever happen in Spanish: /ʃɹ/ /θɹ/ /sm/ /sn/ /sp/ /st/

a)

True

b)

False

31.

The / ʒ / phonemic and phonetic distribution is total.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

The common sound in the tongue twister 'Roe sew a cold robe when Rose sold a snow-toe show' is:

a)

/aw/

b)

/ow/

c)

/oj/

d)

/aj/

33.

When a 'voiced apico alveolar nasal occurs before a dorso velar', it becomes…..

a)

It transforms into a dorso-velar nasal in both Spanish and English.

b)

It becomes a dorso-velar sound in both Spanish and English.

34.

When the dorso section of the tongue moves downwards from the high front position to the mind front position. Lip shape keeps spread. Jaw moves down slightly, ¿which sound is produced?

a)

/yo/

b)

/ya/

c)

/ye/

d)

/yu/

35.

Affricate sounds use digraphs to be represented phonetically.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

Write the appropriate word/phrases that concerns the sentences. It is a body of text, utterances, or other specimens considered more or less representative of a language.

a)

Corpus Linguistics

b)

Linguistic dataset

c)

Speech data

d)

Language specimen

37.

Standard Spanish has 24 phonemes: 5 vowels, 19 consonants and 14 diphthongs.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

Write the appropriate word/phrase. It is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial and/or national divisions of humanity.

a)

Ethnology

b)

Cultural anthropology

c)

Comparative anthropology

d)

Social anthropology

39.

The spellings: ............................... correspond to the sound:

a)

/a/

b)

/ɔ/

c)

/o/

d)

/u/

40.

Spanish laterals have just one set of homorganic sounds

a)

True

b)

False

41.

All voiceless and voiced plosive are liquids and they are a similarity between English and Spanish

a)

True

b)

False

42.

The spellings: .......................... correspond to the

a)

/a/

b)

/ə/

c)

/u/

d)

/o/

43.

The voiced, bilabial, nasal before a voiceless bilabial fricative change its:

a)

Narrow condition

b)

phonological condition

c)

fricative condicion

d)

broad condition

44.

It is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.This may be known as comparative diachronic Linguistics as well

a)

Ethnology

b)

Psycholinguistics

c)

phonological condition

d)

Comparative Linguistics

45.

It certainly studies, analyzes, and compares two or more languages descriptively in order to find out similarities and differences among them during the language learning process.

a)

Psycholinguistics

b)

Contrastive Linguistics

c)

Philology

d)

Comparative Linguistics

46.

It is a discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them

a)

Philology

b)

Anthropological linguistics

c)

Psycholinguistics

d)

Contrastive Linguistics

47.

It studies language change and language relationship.

a)
Linguistics
b)

Philology

c)
Sociology
d)
Anthropology
48.

It deals with the relationship between language and culture and has also been a major concern among linguists, especially anthropological linguists.

a)
Sociolinguistics
b)

Anthropological linguistics

c)
Syntax
d)
Semantics
49.

Choose the right answer: ................. is “voiced, dorso-palatal, nasal”

a)

[ɲ ]

b)

[n]

c)

[m]

d)

[ñ]

50.

Laterals become..............after any voiced consonant in both Spanish and English Answer:

a)

voiceless

b)

Unvoiced

c)

Palatal

d)

Spread

51.

The phonetic Spanish distribution of the `voiceless, apico-interdental, oral, fricative` is:

a)

/s/ Total

b)

/ɵ/ Total

c)

/ʃ/ Total

d)

/f/ Total

52.

Is the language used by people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest.

a)

Dialect

b)

Slang

c)

Jargon

d)

Colloquialism

53.

The phonetic distribution of the spanish voiced ,plosive bilabial oral is

a)

Partial and complementary

b)

Partial

c)

Free variation

d)

Total and complementary

54.

The phonetic distribution of the spanish “voiced, plosive, bilabial, oral ” is: Select one:

a)

total and complementary

b)

partial and complementary

c)

Partial

d)

Free variation

55.

The common pronunciation sound in the words below is:
< pneumonia, few, do, room, you, Luke, blue, fruit>

a)

[ ʊ: ]

b)

/ ʊ /

c)

/u/

d)

/ uw /

56.

The spellings < ou >, < ow >, < ough> represent the sound: Select one:

a)

[ɔɪ̯ : ]

b)

[ aɪ̯ ː ]

c)

/aw/

d)

[ɔɪ̯ ]

57.

Final clusters in English might increase their number of consonant sounds due to:

a)

noun possessives, and 3 person singular

b)

noun plurals, ans noun possessives

c)

3 person singular, noun possessives, noun plurals

58.

The difference in pronunciation which is used by speakers to distinguish different utterances in a language is known as:

a)
Phonetics
b)

contrast

c)
Morphology
d)

diphthong

59.

Monophthongs are just one vowel sound. They are classified as front, central and back sounds. The sound /i/ is featured by:

a)

The front section of the tongue rises to make contact both sides of the upper lateral teeth. A groove is formed in the middle of it and the airstream flows throughout freely. The tip of the tongue touches the lower incisive teeth.

b)

The tongue is positioned forward and high in the oral cavity with the sides in contact with the teeth laterally and the tip positioned behind the lower teeth. The lips are spread and retracted. The jaw moves up.

c)

The dorso section of the tongue reaches the borders of the hard palate making a groove between the tongue and the palate. The jaw moves down more than in /i/ production. The tip of the tongue moves forward the lower front teeth.

d)

The tongue is positioned forward and slightly lower than in the oral cavity for /i/, with the sides in contact with the teeth laterally and the tip positioned behind the lower teeth. The jaw moves up slightly lower than for /i/.lips are spread and retracted.

60.

The type of notation that depends on the level of abstraction, the hearing limits and IPA conventions is:

a)

Broad and narrow

b)

Narrow

c)

Broad

d)

Orthographic

61.

The spellings :< o >, < oo >, < u >, < ou >, , < a >, < e >, < eou >, < o>, < u >, cor respond to the sound:

a)

/a/

b)

/ ə /

c)

/ow/

d)

/eo/

62.

When two or more allophones happen in the same position and don’t change the meaning of the phonological group, it is known as:

a)
Free Variation
b)
Complementary Distribution
c)
Phonetic Variation
d)
Phonemic Variation
63.

The phonemic distribution of Spanish voiceless plosives is

a)

Complementary

b)

Partial

c)

Total

d)

Free variation

64.

The / ɪy / vowel distribution is:

a)

Total

b)

Complementary

c)

Free Variation

d)
In the back and close
65.

Voiced Spanish plosives might be fricative. Voiced English plosives are not.

a)

True

b)

False

66.

Voiceless English plosive sounds in final position might have a variation in pronunciation. That is because of free variation.

a)

True

b)

False

67.

resaltador is a phonological group which has.......... assimilation process(es) which are

a)

two / a dental plosive and a fricative bilabial

b)

two / apico alveolar plosive and bilabial fricative after a vowel sound

c)
4 assimilation processes
d)

one / a fricative plosive between vowel sounds

68.

The process by means of which the dorso section of the tongue reaches the borders of the hard palate making a groove between the tongue and the palate. The jaw moves down more than in /i/ production , and the tip of the tongue moves forward the lower front teeth, corresponds to the < > production.

a)

<a>

b)

<e>

c)

<o>

d)

<u>

69.

The voiced, bilabial, fricative sound occurs in middle position in not only Spanish but also English.

a)

True

b)

False

70.

The production of the /e/ and /ɛ/ sounds differs in its:

a)

vowel quality

b)

muscle tension

c)

voicing

d)

lip shape

71.

The features 'voiced, simple, mid-central, lax, neutral' correspond to:

a)

[ɚ]

b)

[ ə ]

c)

[ɝ]

d)

[ ʌ ]

72.

It ignores as many as possible details and captures only the general aspects.

a)

Broad Transcription

b)

Orthographic transcription

c)

Narrow Transcription

d)

Phonemic and Phonetic Notation

73.

There have been different points of view on what Linguistics is. They depend on many concerns that authors have taken into consideration. One of them says that "It certainly studies, analyzes, and compares two or more languages descriptively in order to find out similarities and differences among them during the language learning process." What type of linguistics does it refer to?

a)
Sociolinguistics
b)

Contrastive

c)
Psycholinguistics
d)
Phonetics
74.

The spellings: < ew >, < o >, < oa >, < oe >, < ou >, < ow >, correspond to the sound:

a)

/ew/

b)

/aw/

c)

/ow/

d)

/ao/

75.

The vowel spellings < a >, < au >, < aw >, < o >, < oa >, < ou> concern the sound:

a)

/o/

b)

/ ɔ /

c)

[ õ ]

d)

/ow/

76.

The Diacritic “ h” means that a sound is:

a)

Velarized

b)

Voiceless

c)

Strongly aspirated

d)

Glottal

77.

The tongue is retracted backward the oral cavity. The post dorso section of the tongue moves up toward the soft palate. The tip of the tongue reaches the lower tooth ridge. Lips are rounded. The information above belongs to the sound:

a)
/ʊ/
b)

[ɔ: ]

c)
/ɑ/
d)

/o/

78.

The tongue base is retracted into the mouth cavity towards a mid-high velar position. Lips are rounded like pronouncing but saying . The lower jaw moves down making the mouth open a little bit more than the common /uw/ sound. Vocal folds vibrate. The information above refers to the sound:

a)

/ ʊ /

b)
/æ/
c)
/ʌ/
d)
/eɪ/
79.

Approximant sounds are clearly identified as semiconsonants or semivowels when they are part of a:

a)
Consonant cluster
b)
Vowel cluster
c)
Syllable
d)
Diphthong
80.

There are three pairs of homorganic plosives; however, one set differs in the passive articulator in the Spanish-English Contrast

a)

True

b)

False

81.

This diphthong production is similar in both languages. The sequence shows how the tongue moves from the low-central position to the high-back position. The jaw moves up. The lips change their shape from neutral to rounded during this diphthong production. The information given above has to do with the sound:

a)

/uy/

b)

/ay/

c)

/oy/

d)

/aw/

82.

It is a group of 2 or more adjacent consonants.

a)
Vowel
b)

Cluster

c)
Alphabet
d)
Syllable
83.

The phonemic and phonetic transfer for the voiceless and voiced /t-d/ is:

a)

Zero

b)

Flapping

c)

Nasalizatio

d)
Aspiration and voicing
84.

The following speelings: < ei >, < ey >, < i >, < ie >, < uy >, < y >, correspond to the sound:

a)
/i:/
b)

/ay/

c)
/aɪ/
d)
/ɔɪ/
85.

Write the appropriate word/phrase. It is based on sounds-pronunciation- and deals with symbols which represent consonant or vowel sounds:

a)

Alphabetical Writing Language

b)
Semantics
c)
Syntax
d)
Morphology
86.

Every 'apico alveolar' sound becomes dental in:

a)
English
b)
Spanish
c)
French
d)
German
87.

Palatal vowel sounds are the same as central vowel sounds.

a)
True
b)
False
88.

English vowel sounds might be identified in their vowel quality due to their number of phonemic symbols.

a)

True

b)

False

89.

The features: voiced, complex (adjacent glide), mid-back tense, rounded, lengthened, correspond to:

a)

[ oṷ ]

b)

[ oṷ:]

c)

[ õ ]

d)

[ɔ: ]

90.

The vowel sounds that occurs in English and it is kind of difficult to be mastered by Spanish speakers are the:

a)

high backs, high fronts, mid central, and low front

b)

mid central, low central, and high fronts and backs

c)

mid fronts, mid bak, and low central

91.

The unit of Narrow Transcription is:

a)

phoneme

b)

contrastive

c)

non-contrastively

d)

allophone

92.

The study focus of Linguistics is language. Concepts on it have been stated according to different points of view of researchers. Language is the system of human communication which consists of the structured arrangement of sounds or their written representation into larger units, eg. Morphemes, words, sentences, utterances. This point of view was presented by:

a)

Heinle Dictionary

b)

Nash

c)

Richards

d)

Wardhaugh

93.

The spellings: < a >, < au >, < aw >, < o >, < oa >, < ou>, correspond to the sound:

a)

/ɔ/

b)

/au/

c)

/ aw /

d)

/o/

94.

The process by means of which the tongue is positioned forward and high in the oral cavity with the sides in contact with the lateral teeth and the tip placed behind the lower teeth. Lips are spread and retracted corresponds to the sound:

a)

Vowel /ɛ/

b)
Vowel /a/
c)
Vowel /u/
d)
Vowel /o/
95.

What is the spelling that corresponds to 'voiced, simple, low-front, lax, spread'

a)

<a> <au>

b)

<e> <au>

c)

<a> <u>

d)

<æ> <au>

96.

Velar vowel sounds are the same as back sounds

a)

True

b)

False

97.

The common vowel sound uttered in the tongue twister 'A Tudor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to say the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?' is:

a)

[ ũ ]

b)

/uw/

c)

[ ʊ: ]

d)

/u /

98.

Five-medial consonant cluster happens in:

a)
Spanish
b)
English
c)
French
d)
German
99.

What is the relevant parameter that makes a difference between /t-d/ SpanishEnglish sounds?

a)

Passive Articulator

b)
Lip shape
c)
Vocal cord vibration
d)
Nasal resonance
100.

A way of speaking the language under certain circumstances produced by the environment and accepted by s small group of people.

a)
Dialect
b)
Accent
c)
Slang
d)
Idiom
101.

Write the appropriate word/phrase. It is an arbitrary structured system of utterances-sounds, gestures, signs, and movements, written symbols, morphemes, words and sentences used for human communication:

a)
Music
b)

Fonologia

c)
Language
d)
Dance
102.

/b,d,g/ becomes fricative in middle position after and .

a)

True

b)

False

103.

The tongue is positioned back in a low-mid position with respect to the height. The jaw is slightly lowered. The lips are rounded but bigger than for /u/ and /ow/. This sound happens in language(s).

a)
English and French
b)
Spanish and Italian
c)

spanish and english

d)
Chinese and Japanese
104.

It means both languages have the same element but wit different function.

a)

Compound word

b)

Dialect

c)

Zero transfer

d)

Negative Transfer

105.

The [ æ:] features are:

a)

voiced, simple, low-central, tense, neutral, unlengthened

b)

voiced, simple, low-front, lax, spread, lengthened

c)

voiced, simple, low-central, lax, neutral, lengthened

d)

voiced, simple, low-central, tense, neutral, nasal

106.

The main trait of Spanish vowel allophones is that they might be ...............while in English, they could be .....................

a)

unlengthened, nasals, and or open / lengthened or unlengthened

b)

unlengthened, and or open / lengthened or unlengthened

c)

unlengthened, nasal/ lengthened or unlengthened

107.

The common sound in the words <calm, encore, not. knowledge> is:

a)

The sound [ ã ]

b)

The sound /a/

c)

The sound / æ /

d)

The sound [ æ:]

108.

International Phonetic Association was created by language teachers in France in ................ . This association published officially the first version in .................. . Its main aim is to promote the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of this science and its principle is “one symbol per every distinctive and relevant sound”. The latest version of The International Phonetic Alphabet revised and updated by IPA in ............... .

a)
1886, 1888, 2005
b)
1885, 1887, 2004
c)
1887, 1889, 2006
d)
1886, 1888, 2006
109.

“voiced, simple, high-back, lax, rounded” corresponds to:

a)

/æ/

b)

/ũ/

c)

/ʊ/

d)

/g/

110.

The processes that occur when vowels are followed by an implosive nasal consonant or when vowel sounds are found between two nasal consonant sounds, is known as:

a)
Nasalization
b)
Vocalization
c)
Aspiration
d)
Palatalization
111.

What element makes the difference in the /t-d/ pronunciation between Spanish and English?

a)

Manner

b)

the active articulator

c)

the passive articulator

d)

Voicing

112.

Which clusters happen just in English?

a)

/pɾ/; /st/; /pɹ/; /bɹ/; /tɾ/; /bɾ/;

b)

/∫ɹ/: /θɹ/: /sm/:/sn/: /sp/: /st/

c)

/∫ɹ/: /θɹ/: ; /sm/: /tɹ/; /dɾ/; /dɹ/;

d)

/kɾ/; /kɹ/; /gɾ/; /gɹ/; /fɾ/; /fɹ/;

113.

<e, ee, ie, ei> correspond to:

a)

vd, simple, mid-front, lax, spread

b)

vd, simple, mid-front, tense, spread

c)

vd, complex, high-front, tense, spread

d)

vd, simple, high-front, lax, spread

114.

The word < fraile> has a/an :

a)

non-adjacent glide

b)

adjacent glide

c)

intersyllabic cluster

d)

intrasyllabic cluster

115.

Significant elements change meaning since they are:

a)

intra-syllabic clusters

b)

Allophones

c)

Contrastive

d)
Unchangeable
116.

The spellings < e >, < ea >, < ai >, < a >, < ie > deal with the sound:

a)

[ ẽ ]

b)

[ e ]

c)

[ eɪ̯ : ]

d)

/ ɛ /

117.

The tongue twister 'A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood' contains mostly a 'low-mid front' vowel sound.

a)
True
b)
False
118.

Every voiceless English plosive is strongly aspirated when they happen in initial position. The same situation happens to voiceless Spanish sounds.

a)

True

b)

False

119.

The notation system that ignores as many as possible details is known as:

a)

narrow transcription

b)

broad transcription

c)

orthographic notation

d)

phonetic transcription