ENG507 Midterm Solved Papers

Q. Subtypes of phonology (3)

Q. When the focal folds are tight together the resultant sounds are called Voiced. Q. the sponge like tissues contained within air range is called the diaphragm.

Q. Another name of phonemic transcription is (Broad Transcription)

Q. the length of the VOT is dependent on the practical measurement is based on the practical measure of aspiration

Q. In auditory phonetics we study sound with · Q. In English there are (24) consonants · Q. Voiceless stops at syllable initial are ASPIRATED · Q. Consonants at the end of syllable are LONGER

Q. Voiced stops at syllable initial are VOICELESS.

Q. Right Transcription of furiously... Choose from options ˈfjɝː.i-

Q. Voiceless stops are ASPIRATED in onset position

Q. Unaspirated voiceless stop has Voice onset time near ZERO

Q. all sound produced..... Help of air compressed by LUNGS

Q. Frequency, pitch, and loudness are PHYSICAL features. Q. another name for phonemic transcription is . a) Narrow transcription b) broad transcription C) orthographic transcription d) technical transcription Q. Which of the following branches of phonetic focuses on methodologies and aspect of experimental work on------ speech sounds? Experimental phonetics

Q. in English there are ---- consonant types

Q. the short symbols which are used for indicating suprasegmental------- diacritics [ʲ]

Q. noticeable event accruing at regular intervals · a. Tone · b. pitch · c. rhythm · d. intonation · Q. /3/ and /a/ are examples of vowel · a.lax · b.Tense · c.lenis · d.forties · Q. How many sub types does phonology has · Q. Phonology is the study of........ Structure of language · Sound · Grammar

Q. lenis refers to a sound made with a relatively.......... Muscular effort.

Less · quick · Strong · Weak

Q. the velaric airstream mechanism involves an air flame produced by a movement of the back of tongue against the

Hard palat

Soft palat

Q. Higher overtone F2 tells about the position of TONGUE.

Q. In IPA small symbols superimposed on segments are called DIACRITICS

Q. Lax sounds are produced with LESS muscular effort. Q. Optimality theory has stemmed from GENERATIVE phonology. Q. Human speech production is studied under the branch of phonetics.

Q. While studying vowels on spectrogram overtone F2 tells us about the position of ___

Q. phonemic transcription is enclosed in slashes or oblique lines

Q. fricatives are also known as spirants

Q. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound

Q. In typical tone languages linguistic function of phoneme is to change meaning of word.

Q. /b/ /d/ fall under the category of___ · voiced · voiceless · Q. Which word used in long vowels barn

Q. When a sound is not primarily articulated and some other sound is added to it known as. Articulation Q. Intonation refers (very) simply to the variations in the pitch of a speaker’s voice (f0).

Q. This term is used to describe some varieties of English (e.g., American) pronunciation in which the /r/ phoneme is found in all its phonological contexts. Q. The term ‘stop’ is used in the phonetic classification of consonant sounds on the basis of their manner of articulation.

Q. The North wind and the sun is a folktale taken from (Arne Thompson)

Q. /€:/ and /a:/ are the examples of ... (Tense)

Q. The glottis is defined as the space (vocal folds)

Q. In English /p t k/ at the beginning of a syllable are aspirated

Q. Define the term 'rhotic accent'

A rhotic speaker pronounces the letter "R" in hard and water. In other words, rhotic speakers pronounce "R" in all positions.

Q. Two types of sounds involving aspiration process - 2 marks

Phonetically, aspiration is the result of the vocal cords being widely parted at the time of the articulatory release. Is some languages (such as English) aspiration is allophonic while in others (such as Urdu) it is phonemic.

Q. Tone language's

In the case of tone languages, it is usual to identify tones as being a property of individual syllables, whereas an intonational tone may be spread over many syllables. Similarly, in the analysis of English intonation, tone refers to one of the pitch possibilities for the tonic (or nuclear) syllable, a set usually including fall, rise, fall–rise and rise– fall, though others are also suggested by various experts.

Q. feel, father, put describe vowels with tongue position

A low vowel (such as a in “father” or “had”) is produced with the tongue relatively flat. You may also be able to feel the [i] as somewhat further forward

Q. pronouncing /u/ tongue position is:

Vowel /ʊ/ is often pronounced with spread lips in this variety of English. It is like the back of the tongue is raised for an /u/ vowel sound creating a secondary (articulation) constriction.

Q. H and L stand for in break indicates 2 marks

One of the most recently developed methods is called the ‘tone and break indices’ (ToBI). This method is used for the description of intonation (H/L) representing pitch changes and showing pitch accent – phrase accent and boundary by showing tone and break indices. This is based on describing High (H) and Low (L) pitches in a sentence representing pitch changes and showing pitch accent – phrase accent and boundary (of the phrase).