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Christmas Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is not described in the IPA table?

a)

Place of Articulation

b)

Nasalization

c)

Buccalization

d)

Vocalization

2.

Which of these sounds is unvoiced?

a)

[z]

b)

[s]

c)

[t]

d)

[a]

3.

Which of these vowels is unrounded?

a)

[u]

b)

[y]

c)

[ø]

d)

[ɯ]

4.

Vowels have the features:

a)

height

b)

loudness

c)

roundedness

d)

frontness

5.

Which are diphthongs in German:

a)

[aʊ]

b)

[aɪ]

c)

[ɔʏ]

d)

[eɪ]

6.

Which formant depends on tongue height?

a)

F0

b)

F1

c)

F2

d)

F3

7.

Which theory describes the following: "The vowel space is used in the most optimal way such that confusion among vowels is avoided and there are enough vowels to create many different words."

a)
Dispersion
b)

Exemplar

c)

Optimality

d)

Spacial

8.

What sound could that be?

a)

an uvular approximant

b)

a velar approximant

c)

a palatal plosive

d)

a velar plosive

9.

What sound is that?

a)

uvular trill

b)

bilabial plosive

c)

bilabial nasal

d)

bilabial fricative

10.

Which of these are bilabial sounds?

a)

[g]

b)

[m]

c)

[b]

d)

[f]

11.

Which of these statements is correct?

a)

Hearing is the transfer of energy from sound waves to nerve impulses

b)

Speech perception is the transfer of energy from sound waves to nerve

impulses

c)

Speech perception relates nerve impulses to linguistic

representations

d)

Hearing relates nerve impulses to linguistic

representations

12.

Which term describes the influence of visual information during auditory speech perception?

a)

Mandela effect

b)

Ganong effect

c)

Stroop effect

d)

McGurk effect

13.

What theory doesn't describe how sounds are stored in the brain?

a)

Exemplar Theory

b)

Prototype Theory

c)

Demi-Syllable Theory

d)

Dispersion Theory

14.

What do you need to identify phonemes?

a)

Minimal pairs

b)

Predictability

c)

Place of Articulation

d)

Major class

15.

Which of them form a minimal pair?

a)

Rot

b)

Tod

c)

Maus

d)

Kauf

16.

What are major class features?

a)

consonantal

b)

continuant

c)

voice

d)

syllabic

17.

ʔ is a ...

a)

Glottal stop

b)

Bilabial Click

c)

Epiglottal plosive

d)

Greek questionmark, duh?

18.

What is the Schwa?

a)

ə

b)

ɐ

c)

e

d)

ɛ

19.

English translation refers to this SPE rule:

[- son, + cont] -> [-cont] / _ #

a)

Consonants become voiceless at the end of a word

b)

Fricatives become stops at the end of a word

c)

Fricatives become stops at the beggining of a word

d)

Obstruents are deleted at the beginning of a word

20.

Which SPE corresponds to the English rule:

"Dorsal fricatives become coronal after front vowels."

a)

[DORSAL, + son] → [CORONAL] / [ + back] _

b)

[DENTAL,+cont] → [CORONAL] / [- front] _

c)

[DORSAL,+cont] → [CORONAL] / [-back] _

d)

[CORONAL,+ son] → [DORSAL] / [-back] _