NN 1 Buổi 3,4

Sounds that are produced when air flow through the mouth is completely blocked and released through the nose are called

• Glides

• Plosives

• Nasals

• Stops

Which of the following words starts with an affricate sound?

• Head

• Mode

• Those

• Chain

A fricative and an affricate differ in…

• place of articulation

• nothing

• pressure phase and friction phase

• manner of articulation

The initial sound in "chitchat" is

• palatal, affricate, voiced

• alveolar, affricate, voiceless

• palato-alveolar, affricate, voiceless

• palatal, affricate, voiced

What is the difference between a nasal and a plosive?

• The position of the tongue

• The position of the velum

• Voicing

• Lip rounding

The sound /l/ when occurring after a vowel is called…..

• Devoiced

• Clear

• Dark

• Syllabic

…….are pronounced with the contact made between lower lip and upper teeth.

• Labio-dentals

• Alveolars

• Bilabials

• Dentals

Which of the following statements is correct? All the consonants are produced with

• an extra puff of the air strongly expelled

• an obstruction of the airstream (complete or partial)

• no vibration of the vocal cords

• vibration of the vocal cords

Which of the following phonetic variations that may happen to the lateral [ l ] in this context: ankle?

• [ l ] becomes devoiced after voiced stop [ k ]

• [ l ] becomes syllabic after voiced stop [ k ]

• [ l ] becomes unaspirated after voiced stop [ k ]

• [ l] becomes aspirated after voiced stop [ k ]

How are vowels different from consonants?

• They are always nasal.

• They are always voiceless.

• They are spoken further back in the mouth.

• They can occupy the nucleus of a syllable.