George Yule Part 2

1. The initial sounds in the words bat, pat and mat are all…

	voiced
	bilabial
	stops
	voiceless

 

2. The initial sounds in the words thin and there are…

	voiced
	voiceless
	dentals
	alveolars

 

3. The initial sounds in the words tip, dip, zoo, so and nut are all …

	alveolars
	velars
	fricatives
	voiced

 

4. The initial sounds in the words too and so differ in …

	place of articulation
	manner of articulation
	voice
	nasalisation

 

5. The initial sounds in the words we and yes are sometimes called …

	vowels
	flaps
	glottal stops
	semi-vowels

 

6. The vowel in heat is a …

	high front vowel
	mid central vowel
	high back vowel
	low front vowel

 

7. The first vowel in award is a …

	high front vowel
	mid central vowel
	high back vowel
	low front vowel

 

8. The vowel in large is a …

	high front vowel
	mid central vowel
	high back vowel
	low back vowel

 

9. In producing …, we move from one vocalic position to another.

	semi-vowels
	diphthongs
	central vowels
	schwa

 

10. A phoneme is …

	the smallest meaningful unit of language
	the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit of language
	a variation of the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit of language
	the physical realisation of the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit of language

 

11. The initial consonant in pub is a …

	voiceless bilabial stop
	voiced bilabial stop
	voiceless bilabial fricative
	voiced bilabial fricative

 

12. The initial consonant in key is a …

	voiced velar fricative
	voiceless alveolar fricative
	voiced alveolar stop
	voiceless velar stop

 

13. The initial consonant in veil is a …

	voiced labiodental fricative
	voiceless labiodental fricative
	voiced dental fricative
	voiceless labiodental fricative

 

14. If the production of a sound is accompanied by a particularly strong stream of air we speak of …

	assimilation
	aspiration
	approximants
	affective filter

 

15. The vowel in seen, as opposed to the vowel in seat, is usually …

	open
	voiced
	nasalised
	deleted

 

16. The words … form a minimal pair.

	site and side
	not and knot
	leaf and leaves
	bed and breakfast

 

17. The words … form a minimal pair.

	friend and friendship
	food and feet
	tough and dough
	fit and foot

 

18. The occurrence of more than one consonant at the beginning or the end of a a syllabe is known as …

	a consonant cluster
	the coda
	elision
	the onset

 

19. Assimilation and elision …

	frequently occur in careful speech
	are features of everyday speech
	are to be avoided
	usually occur in consonant clusters