This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the purpose of of the intrusive sounds/r/, /j/ and /w/? A) Make the intonation more rhythmical. B) Help the speaker speak more clearly. C) Improve the sound quality of the words. D) Help the speaker link words more easily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Help the speaker link words more easily. 2. Which consonants can be dropped?Try to get some rest during the flight. A) /t/ in rest. B) /t/ in to. C) /t/ in get. D) /t/ in flight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /t/ in rest. 3. 'I just can't get you out of my head'. How would you say it? A) Getyouout. B) Get you out. C) Gejouout. D) 'gechou out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 'gechou out. 4. Guess which letter are silentListen A) Listen. B) Listen. C) Listen. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Listen. 5. Go ahead ..... How would you say it? A) Goahead. B) Go ahead. C) Goyahead. D) Gowahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gowahead. 6. When does linking usually happen? A) Between consonants. B) After glottal stops. C) At the end of a sentence. D) Between vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between vowels. 7. Casual Form is ..... A) Phonemic TranscriptionUsually transcribed using dashes. B) Phonetic TranscriptionUsually transcribed using brackets. C) Phonemic TranscriptionUsually transcribed using brackets. D) Phonemic TranscriptionUsually transcribed using slashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phonetic TranscriptionUsually transcribed using brackets. 8. Bob ate some corn (4 syllables)How many stressed syllables are there? A) 2. B) 3. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 9. Which type of elision occurs when sounds are omitted in present-day English? A) Optional Elision. B) Vowel Elision. C) Consonant Elision. D) Historical Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical Elision. 10. What are Minimal Pairs? A) Pairs of words that differ by only one sound but have different meanings. B) Pairs of sentences that use similar structures but have different meanings. C) Pairs of phrases that use identical words but in different order. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pairs of words that differ by only one sound but have different meanings. 11. Which of the following is a homophone of "mail" ? A) Male. B) Make. C) Laim. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Male. 12. Spot and say the linking sounds. I like to breathe the fresh air. A) Like to. B) Breathe the. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breathe the. 13. When is a /n/ a /m/? A) Ten pin bowling. B) Good boy. C) Have to stay. D) The right key. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ten pin bowling. 14. A foot will usually begin with a stress syllable and includes all following unstressed syllable up to the following unstressed syllable. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. The first time he was hit, he felt nothing, but the second time, he screamed in pain.Which of the highlighted final sounds is normally pronounced in fast speech?Choose as many as you think are right. A) /t/ in 'first'. B) /t/ in 'felt'. C) /d/ in 'second'. D) /d/ in 'screamed'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) /d/ in 'screamed'. 16. Which connected speech type has been undergone here?*I want this orange $\rightarrow$ thisorange A) Intrusion. B) Geminates. C) Catenation or Linking. D) Elision. E) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catenation or Linking. 17. When a consonant phoneme will change to sound more like another consonant that is near it. A) Assimilation. B) Elision. C) Strong. D) Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assimilation. 18. Which process causes /d/ to become /b/ in "good boy" ? A) Linking. B) Intrusion. C) Assimilation. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assimilation. 19. What are Weak Forms? A) The unstressed, reduced pronunciation of function words (e.g., articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs) in connected speech. B) The full pronunciation of function words in formal contexts. C) A method of stressing the first letter of every word in a sentence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The unstressed, reduced pronunciation of function words (e.g., articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs) in connected speech. 20. Which language has Stress-timed rhythm? A) Chinese. B) French. C) Telugu. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English. 21. The last consonant of the first word is joined to the vowel sound at the start of the second word. For example:pick it up A) Elision. B) Assimilation. C) Juncture. D) Catenation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catenation. 22. Which syllables usually receive stress? A) Word-final. B) Strong. C) Silent. D) Weak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strong. 23. Which of the following is a content word? A) The. B) Quickly. C) And. D) Of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quickly. 24. The baby loves mashed potatoes. [ mashed potatoes ] A) Elision. B) Intrusive /r/. C) Intrusive /w/. D) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 25. According to the noun compound (simple or complex) which utterances are correct? A) I do not like to eat hot DOG. B) The airPLANE wings are very big. C) The COWboy's reunion is in two months. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The COWboy's reunion is in two months. 26. What is often elided in the phrase "next day" ? A) /t/. B) /n/. C) /d/. D) /s/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /t/. 27. "next week" $\rightarrow$ This is ..... A) Coalescence. B) Vowel insertion. C) /k/ elision. D) /t/ elision in cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) /t/ elision in cluster. 28. The one word that in a sentence that is most likely to recieve sentence stress is ..... A) The longest word in the sentence. B) The last content word of the sentence. C) The first word in the sentence. D) The subject of the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The last content word of the sentence. 29. Liaison may make it harder for non-native speakers to understand what is said. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Basically, a sound is eaten by other stronger or similar sounds next to it. A) Intrusion. B) Catenation or Linking. C) Geminates. D) Assimilation. E) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Elision. 31. Giving human qualities to non-human things. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 32. What are segmental modifications? A) Changes in sentence structure. B) Modifications in writing style. C) Changes of phonemes of words at the connected speech level. D) Alterations in word meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Changes of phonemes of words at the connected speech level. 33. In two or more syllable words, what type of stress does the syllable that does not receive primary stress receive? A) Secondary stress. B) No stress. C) Tertiary stress. D) Primary stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary stress. 34. Which suffix usually causes the stress to fall on the syllable before it? A) -ing. B) -er. C) -ed. D) -tion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -tion. 35. What is metathesis? A) The removal of vowels in words. B) The transposition of speech sounds in words. C) The repetition of consonants in words. D) The addition of extra syllables in words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The transposition of speech sounds in words. 36. Choose a sentence that has assimilation A) Piece of bread. B) It's not boring. C) Sing this song. D) Fluent speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's not boring. 37. "Sound change in which some phonemes change to be more similar to other nearby sounds" . This concept refers to: A) Assimilation. B) Insertion. C) Variation. D) Dissimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assimilation. 38. When a word ends in a consonant sound, we often move the consonant sound to the ..... of the next word. A) Beginning. B) End. C) Mid. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beginning. 39. Spot and say the linking sounds. Today is a good day for playing outside. A) Good day. B) For playing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good day. 40. Which is one characteristic of the patterns 2 and 3? A) The word after the verb carries the strongly stressed. B) The stress goes only in the verb. C) The verb and the extra particle do not receive only lightly stressed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The word after the verb carries the strongly stressed. 41. De-stress function words such as:pronouns, article, prepositions and conjunctions. What are the function words in the next sentence: "There is an apple on the table" A) Apple, table. B) There is an apple on the table. C) There, is, an, on, the. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There, is, an, on, the. 42. Linking occurs mostly when words ending with a vowel or consonant sound are followed by words that begin with ..... A) A vowel sound. B) A consonant sound. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A vowel sound. 43. In the word "happy" , the final vowel /i/ is: A) Strong. B) Weak. C) Voiced plosive. D) Syllabic consonant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weak. 44. Occurs when a sound which would be present in a word spoken in isolation is omitted in connected speech. e.g. post the letter-old man A) Elision. B) Intrustion. C) Inonation. D) Juncture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 45. What is Juncture in speech? A) The pause or transition between sounds or words in speech, which can affect meaning. B) The way different speakers deliver the same sentence differently. C) The speed at which sentences are delivered in formal contexts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pause or transition between sounds or words in speech, which can affect meaning. 46. In the word 'economic', where is the stress placed? A) Third syllable. B) First syllable. C) Fourth syllable. D) Second syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Second syllable. 47. "Linking, elison and assimilation" usually occur in ..... A) Slow speech. B) Fast speech. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fast speech. 48. Two consonants cannot be linked phonetically. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. In elision, when a weak vowel sound dissapears, it is not replaced by another phoneme A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 50. The sentence nice to meet you in which part has the assimilation? A) /nais tu/. B) /mi:tju:/. C) /tu mi:t/. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /mi:tju:/. 51. In the word 'banana', which syllable is stressed? A) Second syllable. B) No syllable is stressed. C) First syllable. D) Third syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second syllable. 52. Dad went to the shop to ..... a chocolate cake. A) Bye. B) Boy. C) Buy. D) By. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buy. 53. What is the common feature among these sounds?/p/ /b/ and /m/ A) Labio-dental. B) Bilabial. C) Alveolar. D) Nasal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bilabial. 54. In which pair of words does a consonant sound at the end of one word link with a vowel sound at the start of the next word? A) Come over. B) Get better. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Come over. 55. What is one reason pauses occur in connected speech? A) To increase the speed of speech. B) To confuse the listener. C) As a result of a speaker pausing for a breath. D) To change the topic abruptly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As a result of a speaker pausing for a breath. 56. In which context does connected speech typically occur? A) Reading aloud from a textbook. B) Fluent and natural conversation. C) Singing a song. D) Memorizing vocabulary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fluent and natural conversation. 57. Do it ..... Which is the correct sound? A) Doit. B) Dewit. C) Deoit. D) Deyit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dewit. 58. In elision, the sounds that dissapears is: A) A weak vowel after /p/, /t/ and /k/. B) A consonant rounded by two consonants. C) A /v/ in "of" before a consonant. D) All alternatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All alternatives. 59. A phonological process in which one sound is becomemore similar with adjacent sounds. A) Assimilation. B) Elision. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assimilation. 60. How is 'quite good' transcribed? A) /kwaik gud/. B) /kwaikt gud/. C) /kwaib gud/. D) /kwaid gud/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /kwaik gud/. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesConnected Speech Quiz 1Connected Speech Quiz 3Connected Speech Quiz 4Connected Speech Quiz 5Connected Speech Quiz 6Connected Speech Quiz 7Connected Speech Quiz 8Assimilation In Speech Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books