REVIEW
TEST 3
1. What is the rhyming scheme of the following verse?
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
A. ABAB B. ABBA C. AABB D. ABCB
2. Which of the following is correct ?
A. When the vocal cords are wide apart, the sounds produced are voiced.
B. Nasal, oral and pharyngeal cavities function as the principal resonators.
C. The tongue height is essential in producing either rounded or unrounded vowels.
D. When producing a vowel, there is a total closure in the vocal tract.
3. What is the intonation pattern of the following sentence?
A: I’ve heard that it is a nice book.
B. yes (agree with reservation):
A. level B. rise-fall C. fall-rise D. rise
4. Which of the following is NOT CORRECT?
A. Words which serve to express certain grammatical relations or categories in the sentence are
either stressed or unstressed.
B. Stress remains unchanged when suffixes such as –able, -age, - erg are added to the root.
C. In the three-syllable verbs, if the last syllable contains a short vowel and end in not more than
one consonant, the stress will be placed on the preceding syllable.
D. English is a language which has fixed stress in the sense that the stress always falls on the last
syllable in a word.
5. How many phonemes are there in the word ‘teaching’?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
6. The initial vowel of ‘economics’ could be either ‘i’ or ‘e’ according to the variation in the
pronunciation of different speakers. The sounds are said to be______ in that particular word.
A. free variation B. positional variation
C. distinctive variation D. contrastive distribution
7. Which of the following is true?
A. Vowels are produced with complete closure in the vocal tract.
B. Consonants are produced with no obstruction in the vocal tract.
C. Consonants are more sonorous than vowels.
D. All vowels are syllabic.
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8. Which best describes the last sound in the work ‘wicked’?
A. voiceless alveolar stop B. voiced alveolar stop
C. voiceless velar stop D. short high front vowel
9. Which word contains a long high back vowel
A. mood B. look C. shore D. lead
10. Which word is represented by /dʒʌdʒ/?
A. juice B. judge C. just D. junction
11. Voiceless stops are _________after /s/ at the beginning of a syllable.
A. voiced B. unaspirated C. aspirated D. elided
12. In which word, the final sound is a diphthong?
A. go B. car C. ten D. to
13. ______ is meant by the fact that intonation helps to produce the effect of prominence on
syllables that need to be perceived as stressed.
A. attitudinal function B. grammatical function
C. discourse function D. accentual function
14. Which of the following descriptions of the plosive consonant /k/ in hook is CORRECT?
A. It is usually released without plosion.
B. It is devoiced as a consequence of its ending position in the word
C. It is voiced as a consequence of the vowel /ʊ/before it.
D. It is usually released with audible plosion. s
15. Choose the CORRECT forms to complete the phonetic transcription of the following
sentence?
The price is the thing that annoys me.
/ðə/ /praɪs/ /ɪz/_______ /θɪŋ/_________ /əˈnɔɪz//mi/
A. /ðə/ + /ðət/
B. /ði/ + /ðət/
C. /ðə/ + /ðæt/
D. /ði/ + /ðæt/
16. Which of the following symbols that corresponds to each of the following phonetic
description: voiceless interdental fricative?
A. [ v ] B. [ ] C. [ ð] D. [ z]
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17. The _______ consists of the syllables in a tone-unit following the tonic syllable.
A. pre-head B. head C. tail D. tonic syllable
18. Which of the following aspects of connected speech is applied in the sound /t/ in this
context?
[braɪkkʌlə] (bright color)
A. progressive assimilation in place of articulation
B. regressive assimilation in place of articulation
C. progressive assimilation in manner of articulation
D. regressive assimilation in manner of articulation
19. Which of the following allophones is applied in the phoneme /s/?
sow less
A. complementary distribution B. free variation
C. minimal pair C. contrastive distribution
20. A _________ is a consonant that replaces a vowel in a syllable.
A. syllabic consonant B. initial consonant C. final consonant D. consonant cluster
21. In the structure of the word “helped”, the phoneme /l/ is called ______
A. pre- initial B. pre- final C. post - final D. final
22. Which is the correct division of syllables in the word ‘concentrate’?
A. /kɒn.sn.treɪt/ B. /kɒns.n.treɪt/ C. /kɒn.snt.reɪt/ D. /ˈkɒ.nsn.treɪt/
23. Which of the following is NOT an example of free variation?
A. /bæd/ and /bæt/ B. / wʊd/ and / wəd/
C. /tu/ and /tə/ D. /ˈnaɪðə(r)/ and /ˈniːðə(r)/
24.Which of the following phoneme differs in manner of articulation from the others? /t/, /v/,
/ʃ/, /z/
A. /t/ B. /v/ C. /z/ D. /ʃ/
25. The falling intonation is not used in ______
A. Awesome! B. What is it?
C. Will you? D. The sun rises.
26. Which of the following symbols is correct: voiced bilabial nasal
A. [ m ] B. [ w ] C. [n ] D. [ k ]
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27. On the vowel diagrams given below, choose the glide for the dipthong in the “comb” word:
A. B. C. D.
28. The word 'psychology' begins with a ______ sound.
A. post-alveolar, voiced, plosive B. alveolar, voiceless, fricative
C. interdental, voiceless, fricative D. bilabial, voiceless, stop
29. What happens when new information is shown?
A. rising intonation B. falling intonation
C. falling - rising intonation D. rising- falling intonation
30. Why do the initial two-consonant clusters /ʒl/ never occur in English?
A. Because / ʒ/ never occurs in initial position of a word.
B. Because / ʒ/ is never pronounced in initial position of a word.
C. Because /l/ is never pronounced in initial position of a word.
D. Because /l/ never occurs after another consonant.
31. Which of the following is the CORRECT stress pattern of the compound big-headed?
A. /ˈbɪɡ ˈhedɪd/ B. /ˌbɪɡ ˈhedɪd/
C. /ˈbɪɡ ˌhedɪd/ D. /ˌbɪɡ heˈdɪd/
32. In the example, "big gun’. What type of linking exist?
A. Consonant to a consonant B. Vowel to a consonant
C. Consonant to a vowel D. Vowel to a vowel
33. Which happens in the /phˈteɪtəʊ/?
A. /p/ is unaspirated B. the schwa is elided
C. the schwa is regressively assimilated D. the schwa is shortened.
34. A syllable is a unit of organization, typically made up of a ________ as nucleus with optional
initial and final consonants.
A. phoneme B. consonant C. allophone D. vowel
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35. The prominence in the word stress can be produced NOT by
A. loudness B. quality C. tongue position D. length
36. The level tone is used when to show_______.
A. A strong feeling B. disinterest C. surprise D. finality
37. According to Peter Roach, which is the function of intonation?
A. dialect B. discourse C. utterance D. interrogative
38. The word laughed has ………. .
A. final three-consonant clusters B. final two-consonant clusters
C. final four-consonant clusters D. one final consonant
39. In informal speech, which of the following is a common feature of intonation?
A. consistently high in pitch B. Monotonous pitch
C. Fluctuating pitch patterns D. Emphasis on every word equally
40. What happens in the pronunciation of ‘my aunt’?
A. linking ‘y’ and ‘a’ by intruding ‘w’ B. elision
C. assimilation D. linking ‘y’ and ‘a’ by intruding ‘j
TEST 4
1. Which of the following is NOT correct?
A. Phonetics is the study of human speech.
B. Articulatory phonetics studies the ways in which speech sounds are produced.
C. Acoustic phonetics deals with how the speech sounds are produced by the listener.
D. The action of the vocal cords consists in their role as a vibrator set in motion by lung air.
2. Vowels become_______ before nasals.
A. lateralized B. glottal C. assimilated D. nasalized
3. What is the intonation pattern of the following sentence?
A: I’ve heard that it is a nice book.
B. yes (more will be said):
A. level B. rise-fall C. fall D. rise
4. What best describes stressed syllables?
A. Grammatical words are never stressed.
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B. A stressed syllable is more prominent than an unstressed syllable.
C. A stressed syllable is longer than an unstressed syllable.
D. Prefixes like ‘un, im, ir’ change the place of stress
5. Which of the following words where the primary stress is on the first syllable?
A. politics B. electricity C. entertainment D. terrific
6. Which of the following aspects of connected speech is applied in the sound /z/ in this context?
Hard path
A. linking C. assimilation in place of articulation
B. assimilation in manner of articulation D. elision
7. What is the head of the following tone-unit?
and then nearer to the front
A. then B. and C. nearer D. front
8. Which best describes the peak in the word ‘team’?
A. short high front B. voiceless alveolar
C. voiced bilabial D. long high front
9. Which word contains a centring diphthong?
A. father B. there C. shower D. cow
10. _______ consists of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit before the first stressed
syllable.
A. head B. tail C. pre-head D. Tonic syllable
11. Which of the following segments corresponds to each of the following phonetic
description? long low back vowel
A. [ i: ] B. [ɔ: ] C. [ u:] D. [ a:]
12. A rising tone followed by falling tone on something like "I think so" often indicates:
A. a positive response B. boredom C. a doubt D. astonishment
13. The shape of a tune is decided partly by the number of ________ in the group, and partly by
the exact attitude you wish to express.
A. grammatical words B. emotional words
C. important words D. unstressed words
14. In the word leisure , the underlined letter is characterized as a _____ sound.
A. voiced, palato- alveolar, fricative B. voiceless, velar, affricate
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B. voiceless, palato- alveolar, fricative D. voiced, velar, affricate
15. The progressive assimilation means_________.
A. Changing the initial consonant to be like the final consonant of the another word.
B. Replacing both initial and final phonemes with a new phoneme.
C. Removal of both initial and final phonemes.
D. Changing the final consonant to be like the initial consonant of the another word.
16. Which of the following is the near minimal pair?
A. fat – cat B. hip - ship
C. pair - pleasure D. how - laugh
17. Which of the following description on syllable is NOT true.?
A. Consonants may be classified according to the organs of speech and the manners of
articulation.
B. Palatals are sounds articulated in the glottis.
C. Vowels can be short or long.
D. According to the height to which a part of the tongue is raised, vowels can be classified into
closed and open vowels.
18. Which of the following best describes the maximum onsets principle?
A. In terms of syllable division, consonants are assigned to the right-hand syllable as far as
possible within the restrictions governing syllable onsets and codas.
B. In terms of syllable division, consonants are assigned to the left-hand syllable as far as
possible within the restrictions governing syllable onsets and codas.
C. In terms of syllable division, consonants are neither assigned to the right-hand syllable nor the
left-hand syllable within the restrictions governing syllable onsets and codas.
D. In terms of syllable division, consonants are either assigned to the right-hand syllable or left-
hand syllable as far as possible within the restrictions governing syllable onsets and codas.
19. In the structure of “prompts”, the phoneme /t/ is called ______
A. final B. post- final 1 C. post- final 2 D. post- final 3
20. Which best describes the stress pattern in the words ‘optimistic’ and ‘optimist’?
A. The two words both have the primary stress on the first syllables.
B. The first word has the primary stress on the second syllable while the stress of the latter is on
the final syllable.
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C. Both have the primary stress on the second syllables.
D. The first word has its stress on the second syllable while the latter’s stress is placed on the
first.
21. A group of consonants with no vowels between them is called a _____
A. consonant cluster B. syllabic consonant
C. termination consonant D. onset consonant
22. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Minimal pairs consist of two words that differ by only one phoneme.
B. Minimal pairs can differ in any number of phonemes.
C. Minimal pairs help in distinguishing similar-sounding words with different meanings.
D. Minimal pairs are often used to show that two sounds contrast in a language.
23. What is the rhyming scheme of the following verse?
The moon is distant from the sea,
And yet with amber hands
She leads him—docile as a boy—
Along appointed sands.
A. AABC B. ABCB C. ABAB D. ABCC
24.Which of the following phoneme differs in voicing from the others?
/w/, /h/, /l/, /z/
A. /z/ B. /l/ C. /h/ D. /w/
25. On the vowel diagrams given below, choose the glide for the dipthong in the “sign” word:
A. B. C. D.
26. Which fits the features: voiced, approximant, bilabial?
A. [ l ] B. [ w] C. [h] D. [ b ]
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27. Which has the same pronunciation as the word ‘sew’
A. so B. saw C. sir D. son
28. The word 'colleague’ ends with a ______ sound.
A. velar , voiced, stop B. short, front, vowel
C. palatal, voiced, fricative D. palatal, voiced, affricate
29. Which of the following is the CORRECT stress pattern of the compound overflow?
A. /ˈəʊvəfləʊ/ B. /əʊˈvəfləʊ/
C. /əʊvəˈfləʊ/ D. /ˌəʊvəfləʊ/
30. The common feature of the group of vowel sounds /i:, ɪ , e, æ / is _______
A. low B. high C. front D.mid
31. Choose the word that contains the phoneme /z/?
A. person B. someone C. listen D. because
32. In the example, He ate the apple. What type of linking exist?
A. Consonant to a consonant B. Vowel to a vowel
C. Consonant to a vowel D. Vowel to a consonant
33. According to the place of articulation, the consonant sound /dʒ / is
A. dental B. affricate C. palate-alveolar D. fricative
34. The common feature of the group of consonant sounds / w, r, l/ is______.
A. bilabial B. retroflex C. lateral D. approximant
35. Which doesn’t rhyme with the word ‘heir?
A. ensure B. air C. fair D. care
36. Which word has its transcription ‘/ˈəʊbəʒiːn/’?
A. aubegin B. aubergine C. aubegine D. aubigine
37. The word ‘sophisticate’ has stress on the _________ syllable
A. 1st B. 2nd C. 3rd D. 4th
38. The silent letter in the word ‘receipt’ is_________.
A. c B. i C. p D. t
39. There are ________ syllables in the word ‘capitalise’?
A. 5 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
40. Which word has the second syllable stressed?
A. contamination B. drama C. awareness D. critic
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