Phonetics Quiz

The letters k, q, v and z ______ .

• were introduced in Middle English

• were used in Old English

• were introduced in Modern English

• are rarely used in the English alphabet

• are taken over from the Semitic alphabet

The branch of phonetics that studies movements of the speech organs and the coordination of these movements in the production of single sounds is called _____ .

• phonostylistics

• articulatory phonetics

• auditory phonetics

• acoustic phonetics

• suprasegmental phonetics

... studies the way in which the air vibrates between the speaker's mouth and the listener's ear.

• Phonostylistics

• Psycholinguistics

• Acoustic phonetics

• Articulatory phonetics

• Auditory phonetics

The branch of phonetics investigating the hearing process is known as _____ .

• acoustic phonetics

• segmental phonetics

• theoretical phonetics

• auditory phonetics

• articulatory phonetics

_________ is a branch of phonetics that studies the way phonetic means are used in this or that particular situation under the influence of a set of factors which are referred to as extralinguistic.

• Phonology

• Phonostylistics

• Historical phonetics

• Segmental phonetics

• Morphophonemics

Speech sounds are traditionally divided into 2 large groups. They are:

• labial, bilabial

• consonants, vowels

• occlusive, constrictive

• vertical, horizontal

• broad, narrow

Which of the following consonants is not voiced?

• [z]

• [v]

• [ð]

• [t]

• [d]

Which type of consonants cannot exist?

• voiced

• voiceless

• affricates

• rounded

• constrictive

The 2 large oppositional classes of consonants in English are _______ consonants.

• idiolectal and diaphonic

• articulatory and auditory

• occlusive and constrictive

• rounded and unrounded

• front-retracted and back-advanced

Every phoneme can be modified in speech. Among different modifications we can distinguish:

• idiolectal, diaphonic and allophonic

• idiolectal, ideographic and diachronic

• allophonic and cacophonic

• euphonic and cacophonic

• synchronic and diachronic