ENG507 Final Term Quiz from Assessments

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Maha Malik Phonetics and Phonology

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1. Laryngealized (creaky) sound /b̰/ exists in ________. (Hausa)
2. In phonetics and phonology, speech sounds (segments), using basic units of contrast, are defined as gestures. (True)
3. Gestures are treated as the abstract characterizations of articulatory events with an _________ time dimension. (intrinsic)
4. Many languages (including English) have the labiodental fricatives [f, v]. (False)
5. Ejective affricate /tsʼ/ is found in ________. (Navajo)
6. A large number of non-English sounds are to be found in other languages (such as Iranian and African languages). (True)
7. An articulatory target refers to the ________ target position of the articulators for the production of a specific speech sound. (hypothetical)
8. Dental sounds are present only in the American English. (False)
9. In English and most of other languages nasals are voiced. (True)
10. As voiceless nasals are comparatively rare, they are symbolized simply by adding the voiceless diacritic [ ̥] above the symbol for the voiced sound. (False)
11. The fricatives [s, z, ʒ, ʃ] are called ________ sounds. (sibilant)
12. A better way of dividing fricatives is to separate them into groups on a purely ________ basis. (auditory)
13. It is a usual /r/ approximant or unusual rhotic approximate [ɹ] found in ________ English.

(American)

14. In all forms of English, the air flows freely without audible friction, making this sound a ________ alveolar lateral approximant. (voiced)
15. Laterals are usually presumed to be _______ approximants unless a specific statement to the contrary is made. (voiced)
16. A ‘laryngeal gesture’ would specify all supraglottal characteristics. (False)
17. In the sections on various stop sounds in world languages, we studied _______ types of stop sounds. (13)
18. An ‘oral gesture’ would specify characteristics of phonation. (False)
19. Speech segments are modeled as sets of gestures that have their own _______ temporal structure allowing them to overlap one way or the other. (intrinsic)
20. Acoustic phonetics is the study of the ________ properties of speech, and aims to analyze sound wave signals. (physical)
21. Acoustic analysis describes the durational characteristics, articulatory properties and _________ differences through physiological measurement. (phonetic)
22. In acoustics, it is possible to measure and analyze vibrations (physical properties) by mathematical techniques. (True)
23. Source-filter theory is an important concept in auditory phonetics. (False)
24. Acoustics is mainly devoted to the principles of physics involving the latest technology such as computer software ________. (Praat)
25. Sound travels from a noise-making source (i.e., the vocal fold vibration) to the_______.

(lips)

26. Acoustic analysis not only gives us the features of a sound but also tells us about the duration or length of a speech sound. (True)
27. The experts of phonetics are particularly interested in analyzing ________ acoustically.

(vowels)

28. Acoustic Analysis of Vowels describes vowels in terms of numbers (in a language that how many vowels are possible). (True)
29. In source-filter theory, the vocal folds (at ________) are then a source of sound energy.

(larynx)

30. According to Source-filter theory, source refers to the _________ of the vibrating larynx.

(waveform)

31. Acoustic phonetics particularly involves electronics and some grounding in physics.

(True)

32. The air in the vocal tract is set in vibration by the action of the vocal folds. (True)
33. All voiced sounds are distinguishable from one another by their formant structure (frequencies). (True)
34. Using computer programs, we can analyze vowel sounds by showing their components through the display (spectrogram). (True)
35. The resonance frequency of the particular resonance mode _________ when a constriction is located at a node of that resonance mode. (decreases) (increases in system)
36. In spectrograms: the frequency of the components is shown on the _________ scale.

(vertical)

37. The resonance frequencies change in a predictable way when the tube is _________at various locations. (squeezed)
38. The vocal tract as a tube with a uniform diameter has simultaneous resonance frequencies—several different pitches at the same time. (True)
39. The resonance frequency of the particular resonance mode _________ when a constriction is located at a node of that resonance mode. (squeezed)
40. The air in the vocal tract is set in vibration by the action of the vocal folds. (True)
41. The resonance in the vocal tract (filter) is __________ the rate of vibration of the vocal folds (source). (independent of)
42. According to perturbation theory, ________ occurs in a uniform tube where one end is closed and the other end is open. (resonance)
43. The rhythm of the sentence is apparent because the overtone pitches occur only when the ________folds would have been vibrating. (vocal)
44. The acoustic properties (structure) of consonantal sounds are usually more __________ than that of vowels. (complicated)