問題一覧
1
Give an example of an open juncture?
ice cream - I scream
2
Which one is progressive assimilation?
happen /pn/ - /pm/
3
Phonology:
focuses on the way sounds behave in syllabes
4
Plosives:
are the only group of consonants made up of pair of sounds
5
Only Fortis consonants:
can affect neighbouring sounds
6
Which of the following cannot be directly identified by Cardinal Vowels:
the vowel's quantity
7
Short, half open, front, unrounded is the description of English:
/ae/
8
Which of the IPA sounds below is used for an allophones?
/l/
9
Which of the diphthongs below is NOT a closing diphthong?
/ue/
10
In which of the words below there is no aspiration in English:
strong
11
Which of the sound below is not sonorant:
/k/
12
Which of the consonants below is NOT penis in English:
/θ/
13
Only vowels:
are sonorous
14
How many sounds does the entire system of Cardinal Vowels consist of:
8
15
Long, close, unrounded is the description of English:
/i:/
16
Which of the vowels below is not found in British English?
/æ/
17
Which of the diphthongs below is NOT a closing diphthong:
/ɪə/
18
In which of the words below there is no aspiration in English:
lip
19
Which of the sounds below is NOT a plosive:
/ʃ/
20
Which of the consonants below is not alveolar in English:
/θ/
21
In neutral speech we tend to stress:
lexical word classes like nouns, verbs, or adjectives
22
A phenome is:
the smallest unit of language capable of changing the meaning
23
Every phenome:
has its own allophones
24
Cardinal Vowels are:
a pronouncable system of sounds whose individual members can be found in different human languages
25
Long, close, back, rounded in the description of English
/u:/
26
Which of the vowels below is NOT found in English?
/ɞ/
27
Which of the diphthongs below is a centring diphthong?
/ɪə/
28
In which of the words below there is no aspiration in English:
letter
29
Which of the sounds below is NOT fricative:
/k/
30
/gest/ is transcription of:
jest
31
Which of the pairs of words are not examples of homophones in British English:
put/but
32
The peak of the syllable in English:
can only be a vowel sound
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Which of the onsets below constitutes a systematic gap in English?
/ps/
34
Word stress in english is:
not fixed by lexical
35
When happen is pronounced /hæpmd/:
it's an example of juncture
36
British tune 1 has a nucleus which is:
a low rise
37
British tune 2 is often used in:
declarative sentences
38
The fundamental difference between RA and GA us that:
GA has more diphthongs
39
Which of the sounds below are not found in GA:
/ɒ/
40
/eə/ is transcription of?
hair
41
Which of the pairs of words below is NOT a pair of homophones in British English:
guessed/guest
42
The coda of the syllable in English:
can be made of consonant clusters, long vowels, or one of these two vowels /i/ or /ə/
43
Which one of the onsets below constitutes a systematic gap in English?
/pn/
44
British Tune 2 has a nucleus which is:
a fall-rise
45
Alticulatory phonetics:
focuses on the way the sounds are pronounced
46
Allophones:
are concrete realisations of phenome
47
Tunes differ from one another based on:
on the type of nuclear stress
48
British Tune 3 is often used in:
polite requests
49
One of the differences between RP and GA is that:
only RP is a non-rhotic variety