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The document contains 52 multiple choice questions about phonetics and phonology. It covers topics like the difference between fricatives and plosives, examples of affricates, place and manner of articulation for different consonant sounds, vowels, diphthongs, syllables, and the three branches of phonetics. The answers to each multiple choice question are provided at the end.

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Mcqs of Phonetics & Phonology

The document contains 52 multiple choice questions about phonetics and phonology. It covers topics like the difference between fricatives and plosives, examples of affricates, place and manner of articulation for different consonant sounds, vowels, diphthongs, syllables, and the three branches of phonetics. The answers to each multiple choice question are provided at the end.

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MCQs of Phonetics & Phonology

(1) When fricatives are produced air escapes through a narrow passage &makes
a sound
a) Vistle b) Hissing c) Musical d) N.O.T

(2) Fricatives are_____where as plosives aren’t______


a) Sounds b) Consonant c) Continuants d) Vowel

(3) Affricates are begin as_____& end as _______


a) Fricative,Plosive b) Forti,Nasal c) Nasal,fortis d)Plosive,Fricatives

(4) Which of the following is an affricate?


a) /b/ b) /m/ c) /tf/ d) N.O.T

(5) Plosives are also called______


a) Fricatives b) Nasal c) Dental d) Stops

(6) Homorganics are______


a) Sounds that produced with same organ b) Vowel sounds
c) Sound with same length d) A.O.T

(7) Sounds like ‘sh’ & /3/ produced with_______


a) Front teeth c) Both lips b) Alveolar ridge & Tongue blade d) N.O.T

(8) We only count____&_ as Affricate phonemes


a) /dr/, /fv/ b) /ts/, /j/ c) /tf/, /dz/ d) N.O.T

(9) Pronunciation of word Church is composed of _________ phonemes


a) 5 b) 2 c) 8 d) 3

(10) ____fricatives are articulated with more force than that of_____
a) Lenis, fortis b) Fortis, Voiceless c) Lenis, voived d) Fortis, Lenis
(11) Lenis fricatives have voicing in initial & final when they occurbetween sounds
a) Voiced b) B.O.T c) Voiceless d) N.O.T

(12) In English, replacing one phoneme with another causes _____


a) No change b) Only pronunciation change
c) Pronunciation & meaning change d) N.O.T

(13) When we produce /tf/ & /dz/ affricates our lips are______
a) Closed b) Come together c) Rounded d) A.O.T

(14) Fortis sounds are usually articulated with ________ glottis?


a) Open b) Open & closed c) Open and closed d) N.O.T

(15) The word ‘nature’ can phonetically trancribed with glottalisation as ______
a) /neI?tfa/ b) /naetf/ c) /neItfa? d) A.O.T

(16) The plosive, Fricatives and Affricatices combinely give us how manyconsonants?
a) Seventeen b) Ten c) Nineteen d) Fifteen

(17) The number of nasal consonants in English______


a) Seven b) Three c) Nine b) Eleven

(18) ‘How sounds are produced’ is comes under umbrella of_____


a) Plaace of articulation b) Manner of articulaton c) B.O.T d) N.O.T

(19) Stops are also called______


a) Nasal b) Fricative c) Plosive d)A & B
(20) When Nasal sounds produced_ is completely closed
a) Nasal cavity b) Oral cavity c) Glottis d) A.O.T

(21) ______ Is _______ produced when Liquids are made


a) Friction, largely b) Friction, hardly c) Not, Friction d) Friction, Not

(22) During the production of_____sounds, the airstream escaping around onthe sides of
tongue
a) Nasal b) Fricatives c) Affricates d) Lateral

(23) _____sounds are produced when tongue is curled back


a) Retroflex b) Lateral c) Nasal d) stops

(24) ____ are considered as phonological building blocks of words


a) Phoneme b) Morpheme c) Syllable d) A.O.T

(25) The word that contain many syllables are said to be a_____
a) Mono-syllable b ) Poly-syllable c) Di-syllable d) Tri-syllable

(26) Semi-vowels are also called_____


a) Vowels b) Consonants c) Semi-consonants d) Approximant

(27) Fortis production needs___ force than that of lenis


a) Less b) Some c) More d) N.O.T

(28) The study of the possible phoneme combinations of a labnguage iscalled___


a) Phoneme b) Phone c) Morpheme d) Phonotactics

(29) No word begins with more than _________ consonant


a) Two b) Three c) Four d) Six
(30) No current word ends with more than _______ consonants
a) Two b) Four c) Six d) Three

(31) Dark & Clear L are the ____of phoneme L in complementry distribution
a) Phones b) Allophone c) phoneme d) Allomorph

(32) If the first syllable of the word in question begins with a vowel, the initialsymbol has
a onset
a) Pre-initial b) Zero c) Post-initial d) N.O.T

(33) When we have two or more consonants we call them____


a) Consonant cluster b) Cluster c) Consonant plus cluster d) Vowel plus

(34) ______sounds are produced with both lips


a) Labio-dental b) Bilabial c) Alveolar d) Palato-alveolar

(35) Which of the following pair is dental sounds?


a) P, B b) M,V c) TH, D d) A.O.T

(36) From /f/ and /v/ _________ is a voiced labio-dental


a) /f/ b) /v/ c) Both d) N.o.t

(37) _____Place of articulation has only one consonant sound


a) Dental b) Alveolar c) Post-alveolar d) Palatal

(38) Pharynx is divided into ___________ Parts


a) 5 b) 9 c) 6 d) 2

(39) Space between vocal cords known as___ _


a) Vocal space b ) Nasal cavity c) Glottis d) N.O.T
(40) There are____short vowels in English
a) 9 b) 6 c) 8 d) 5

(41) Which of the following short vowel is used in word ‘man’?


a) /a/ b) /I/ c) /ae/ d) /e/

(42) _____short vowel is called cup sound


a) /ae/ b) / /\ / c) /e/ d) /I/

(43) The number of long vowels in English is_____


a) 6 b) 8 c) 5 d) 9

(44) How long vowels are recognized ?


a) By diacritic b) By length mark c) B.O.T d) N.O.T

(45) Diphthongs are produced by the combination of _________sounds


a) One vowel b) Many vowel c) Three vowel d) Two vowel

(46) In the word ‘beard’ which diphthong is used?


a) /ea/ b) /ua/ c) /Ia/ d) /ei/

(47) Triphthongs are composed of _____


a) Five vowel b) Two vowel c) three vowel d) N.O.T

(48) The word ‘player’ contains of _____ syllable


a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

(49) During the production of /I/ our lips are_____


a) Rounded b) Spread c) Neutral d) A.O.T

(50) The study of sound patterns comes under umbrella of ___


a) Phonetics b) Semantics c) Morphology d) N.O.T
(51) Auditory phonetics is the study of____
a) How sounds are heard b) Assimilation c) Production of sound d) N.O.T

rd
(52) Exception of Articulatory and Auditory phonetics ______ is the 3 type of Phonetics
a) Morphology b) Acoustic c) production d) A.O.T

The answers
(1) B (2) C (3) D (4) C (5) D (6) A (7) B (8) C (9) D (10) D (11) A (12) C (13) C (14) A
(15) A (16) A (17) A (18) B (19) C (20) B (21) D (22) D (23) A (24) C (25) B (26) D (27)
C (28) D (29) B (30) B (31) B (32) B (33) A (34) B (35) C (36) B (37) D (38) D (39) C
(40) B (41) C (42) B (43) C (44) B (45) D (46) C (47) C (48) B (49) B (50) D (51) A (52)
B

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