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Maha Malik Phonetics and Phonology

1. This course focuses on the linguistic study of speech sounds in a phonetic and phonological perspective. (true)
2. RP stands for (Received Pronunciation)
3. The suprasegmental features of a language relate to, “What you say?” (False)
4. Human sounds are divided into ________ broad categories. (two)
5. A speech sound in which air is at least partly blocked is called . (consonant)
6. The phonology component examines the internal structure of word forms. (True)
7. At the end of this course, student will be able to understand the segmental and suprasegmental feature of the connected speech. (True)
8. Transcription will not be important part of the evaluation. (False)
9. Phonetics and phonology is the branch of linguistics which deals with the speech sounds. (human)
10. GDB stands for ________ . (Graded Discussion Board)
11. At the end of the course, the students will only be able to transcribe any kind of English text. (False)
12. In this subject, we’ll study the sets of phonemes and sound patterns within a human language. (True)
13. In British English (BBC accent), we have ________ sounds. (44)
14. Phonologist describe the consonants and vowels in a sound system (language). (contrastive)
15. Diphthong is a vowel sound in which the tongue changes position to produce the sound of _______ vowels. (TWO)
16. English diphthongs are divided into two categories. (true)
17. IPA stands for ________. (International Phonetic Alphabet)
18. English sounds have 9 Plosive sound. (false)
19. A speech sound produced by completely or partly stopping the air being breathed out through the mouth is called ________. (consonant)
20. Long vowels produce a ________ vowel sound. (long)
21. Phonetic transcription is the ________ representation of speech sounds by means of symbols. (visual)
22. In phonology, it matters whether sounds are ___________ or not, that is, whether substituting one sound for another gives a different meaning. (contrastive)
23. Phonetics include the understanding of how sounds are using mouth, nose, teeth and tongue. (articulated)
24. There are three major types of phonetics: articulatory phonetics, acoustics phonetics and____________ phonetics. (auditory)
25. The IPA is also maintaining a vibrant (website)
26. Phonetics has been derived from the Greek word ‘phonetic’ meaning sound or voice. (False)
27. Phonetics deals with production, transmission and ___________ of all human speech sounds. (reception)
28. Phonetics as a field of study has a long history, going back certainly to well over __________ years ago. (two thousand)
29. When soft palate is lowered and there is an obstruction in the mouth, we say that there is a nasal consonant. (true)
30. In which branch of phonetics, we study the principal articulators and other processes related to speech production? (Articulatory)
31. In most speech, soft palate is raised so that there is a velic closure. (true)
32. A graph of a sound wave is very similar to a graph of the movements of the eardrum. (true)
33. In the auditory field we do ________ tests to discover how the listener’s ear and brain interpret the information in the speech signal. (perceptual)
34. Like other areas of grammar, a major change in the theory of phonology came about in ________. (1960s)
35. Articulatory phonetics is the branch of phonetics which studies the way in which speech sounds are made (‘articulated’) by the vocal organs. (True)
36. Acoustic phonetics is primarily dependent on the use of instrumental techniques of investigation such as _____________ software. (Praat)
37. What did Peter Ladefoged explore about the areas of experimental phonetics in 1967? (The nature of vowel quality, Stress in respiratory activity, Perception and production of speech, All of the given options)
38. The area of phonology is mainly related to specific ____________ rules within languages. (phonological)
39. Most of the movements relevant to speech take place in the mouth and ________ area. (throat)
40. The phonation process is the name given to the actions of the__________. (vocal folds)
41. In most speech, soft palate is raised so that there is a velic closure. (True)
42. Sibilant fricatives are weak and less audible and strident fricatives are strong and clearly audible. (False)
43. The quality and intensity of fricative sounds varies greatly, but all are acoustically composed of energy at relatively high frequency. (True)
44. BBC English has _______ approximant sounds. (four)
45. The sound which is produced with back of the tongue and the soft palate (such as /k/ and /g/) is called ________. (velar)
46. Consonantal sounds are divided, in terms of their manner of articulation, into two major types: obstruent and sonorants. (true)
47. There are several basic ways to pronounce a consonant sound based on the configuration and __________ of the articulators involved. (interaction)
48. The term ‘fricative’ is used in the phonetic classification of consonant sounds on the basis of their manner of articulation. (False)
49. Plosion is the term used to refer to the ________ movement of air upon release. (outwards)
50. Approximant is a phonetic term used to denote a _______ which makes very little obstruction to the airflow. (consonant)