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What study is the articulatory phonetics?

• the way speech sounds are pronounced

• auditory perception of sounds

• speech sounds as physical phenomena

• the study of language meaning

What study is perceptual phonetics?

• sound production mechanisms

• perceiving speech sounds by auditory system

• the study of speech sounds as symbols

• physical speech patterns

What aspect of speech sounds does articulatory phonetics examine?

• auditory processing of sounds

• grammatical structure of speech

• sound-producing mechanism

• frequency of sound waves

What method is based upon the use of special apparatus?

• the auditory method

• the theoretical method

• the experimental method

• the phonemic method

Who is the author of the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary?

• R.H.Stetson

• Daniel Jones

• H. Sweet

• O. Jespersen

What speech sounds are produced when the air passage between two organs is fairly wide?

• plosives

• affricates

• fricatives

• sonorants

Voiced consonants are:

• p, t, k, f, s

• b, g, d, z, v

• d, f, t, n, p

• p, t, s, r, m

Point out the voiceless consonants:

• b, d, g

• h, f, m

• p, t, k, s, f

• b, g, d, v, z

Point out the fricative consonants:

• b, d, g, z, v

• p, t, k, s, f

• f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ∫, ʒ, h

• l, r, f

What variant does an English phoneme [d] present in words like “door,” “darn”?

• principal

• allophonic

• phonemic

• m