This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which of these adverbial phrases the particle works as a preposition. A) She is looking at his mother. B) She runs away with her mother. C) She figures out her situation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is looking at his mother. 2. The ending sound of one word is linked withthe beginning sound of the following word. A) Word linking. B) Assimilation. C) Coarticulation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word linking. 3. Which type of connected speech involves a sound from one word blending with a sound from the next, forming a third sound? A) Intrusion. B) Linking. C) Coalescence. D) Stress reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coalescence. 4. The season with the cold weather and snow is called ..... A) Winter. B) Vynter. C) Vyneter. D) Vinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winter. 5. Which of the following expressions there is NO assimilation? A) "quite good". B) "good night". C) "golden gate". D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "good night". 6. What happens to the frequency in a sentence with a rising intonational phrase? A) It increases. B) It remains constant. C) It decreases. D) It fluctuates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It increases. 7. What is the obligatory component in every English syllable? A) Consonant cluster. B) Vowel (peak). C) Coda. D) Onset. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vowel (peak). 8. I'm staying with my mother and father. [ mother and ] A) Elision. B) Intrusive /r/. C) Intrusive /w/. D) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrusive /r/. 9. What is regarded as being the absence of any recognisable amount of prominence? A) Movement. B) Transcription. C) Four main factors. D) Unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unstressed. 10. Which words are linked? A) Far away. B) Matt live. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Far away. 11. The process in continuous speech which connects the final sound of one word to the initial sound of the next is called: A) Assimilation. B) Elision. C) Linking. D) Weakening. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linking. 12. In catenation, what typically happens to the final consonant sound? A) It is dropped. B) It is linked to the vowel sound at the beginning of the next word. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is linked to the vowel sound at the beginning of the next word. 13. What is the 'linking /r/' phenomenon? A) The merging of two vowels. B) The addition of /r/ between words. C) The stress on the first syllable. D) The omission of final consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The addition of /r/ between words. 14. Which is not a type of assimilation? A) Voicing. B) Deletion. C) Place. D) Manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deletion. 15. Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings are called ..... A) Consonant. B) Homophones. C) Vowel. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophones. 16. "Nobody's promised tomorrow" A) An awakening to what truly matters. B) Life is uncertain, and we should not take it for granted. C) Exaggeration to emphasize that they want to cherish every moment. D) To develop deep romantic feelings for someone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is uncertain, and we should not take it for granted. 17. The omission of one or more sounds in spoken language is called: A) Assimilation. B) Linking. C) Intrusion. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elision. 18. He asked ..... Wich is the correct inserted sound? A) Hewasked. B) Herasked. C) Heyasked. D) He asked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heyasked. 19. I like to ..... in my notebook everyday. A) Right. B) Rite. C) Write. D) Ryte. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Write. 20. What are the characteristics of connected speech? A) Changes in volume and pitch. B) Changes in stress, intonation, and timing. C) Changes in speed and clarity. D) Changes in language and dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Changes in stress, intonation, and timing. 21. What are function words? A) Words that add information to the sentence. B) Words that are always stressed. C) Words that are only used in questions. D) Words that don't add much information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words that don't add much information. 22. What happens to stress syllables in terms of articulatory force? A) They are spoken with more articulatory force. B) They are spoken with less force. C) They remain unchanged. D) They are whispered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are spoken with more articulatory force. 23. When a question tag is asking for confirmation the intonation goes A) Up. B) Down. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down. 24. The ..... produces no audible sound. A) The off-glide. B) The hold stage. C) The medial stage. D) The on-glide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The on-glide. 25. Everychoose the correct way to pronuounce A) Ev-ry. B) Every. C) E ry. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ev-ry. 26. Which word is an example of stress shift due to suffixation? A) 'bottle' $\rightarrow$ 'bottling'. B) 'photo' $\rightarrow$ 'photography'. C) 'car' $\rightarrow$ 'carpet'. D) 'think' $\rightarrow$ 'thinking'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'photo' $\rightarrow$ 'photography'. 27. How many consonants can occur at the end of an English syllable? A) Three. B) Two. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four. 28. Intrusion is when we add an extra sound to help link two words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others A) Disagree. B) Location. C) Explanation. D) Refugee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Location. 30. Read the sentences aloud. Which has a pair of words that link? A) James works for his father. B) Jenny works for her uncle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jenny works for her uncle. 31. Elision of /t/, /d/ happens when the following word starts with any consonant except ..... A) /h/. B) /w/. C) /d/. D) /t/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /h/. 32. Go out ..... Wich is the correct sound? A) Go out. B) Gowout. C) Goout. D) Goyout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gowout. 33. When is a /d/ a /g/? A) Good girl. B) Good bike. C) These shops. D) This shirt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good girl. 34. Right-to-left (ex. the /s/ will become rounded in the word "soon") A) Internal juncture. B) Progressive assimilation. C) Regressive assimilation. D) Single bar juncture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regressive assimilation. 35. Why does elision occur? A) To slow down speech. B) To make spelling easier. C) To ease pronunciation. D) To stress consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To ease pronunciation. 36. "am, are, were, was" are used in their strong forms when: A) They are before nouns. B) They are at the beginning of a sentence. C) They are in final position. D) They are after nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are in final position. 37. What is considered when transcribing at the single word level? A) Citation form. B) Connected speech. C) Phoneme isolation. D) Utterance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Citation form. 38. When is a /t/ a /k/? A) Bit part. B) White paper. C) Ten green bottles. D) The right key. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The right key. 39. What happens in "go on" ? A) Elision. B) Intrusive /w/. C) Linking /l/. D) Linking /r/. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrusive /w/. 40. Which sound is used to create liaison in the following phrase?marched in A) J. B) T. C) W. D) D. E) R. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. 41. Read and decide the intonation used in below sentence: " I love watching Spider man." A) Falling. B) Rising. C) Fall-rise. D) Rise-fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling. 42. Two Types of Stress A) Headaches and Migraines. B) Stressed and Stressless. C) Unstressed and Stressful. D) Unstressed and Stressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unstressed and Stressed. 43. Go on, try again! [ go on ] A) Intrusive /w/. B) Liasion. C) Assimilation. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrusive /w/. 44. Next door ..... How would you say it? A) Nextwdoor. B) Nextdoor. C) Nexdoor. D) Next door. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nexdoor. 45. What is connected speech? A) Carefully articulated speech in isolation. B) How words are linked naturally in fluent speech. C) A formal way of reading texts. D) Silent speech between phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How words are linked naturally in fluent speech. 46. Pet turtle ..... How would you say it? A) Petjturtle. B) Peturtle. C) Petturtle. D) Pet turtle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peturtle. 47. ..... is the disappearance of sounds in speech. A) Elision. B) Rhythm. C) Assimilation. D) Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elision. 48. Which sounds in "I went there last week." are omitted? A) Went, last. B) I, went. C) Last, week. D) There, week. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Went, last. 49. 'take me out' ..... How would you say it? A) Meout. B) Takewmeout. C) Me out'. D) Me'yout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Me'yout. 50. We can decide on stress placement by some information as: A) Categories of grammar, phonemic structures, syllables. B) Simple word, two or three syllables, grammatical category. C) Form (complex or simple word), grammatical category, syllable, and phonetic structure. D) Form (complex or simple word), grammatical category and syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Form (complex or simple word), grammatical category, syllable, and phonetic structure. 51. Which of the following shows intrusive /j/? A) I eat. B) I agree. C) I am. D) I ought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I am. 52. I started it last Tuesday.Which of the highlighted final sounds would disappear in fast speech?Choose as many as you think are right. A) /d/ in 'started'. B) /t/ in 'last'. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /t/ in 'last'. 53. Which following options doesn't have rhythm? A) Normal people heartbeat. B) The way we write syllables to form a sentence. C) Flash light. D) A piece of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The way we write syllables to form a sentence. 54. Which of these numbers have the stress on the first syllable? A) 30. B) 17th. C) 22. D) 35. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 30. 55. In the sentence "He didn't come, " which sound is being elided? A) /k/. B) /d/. C) /n/. D) /t/. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) /t/. 56. Select the correct definition of Catenation. A) Two or more syllables blended together. B) Speaker join words together. (last consonant of first word is joined to the first vowel of next word). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker join words together. (last consonant of first word is joined to the first vowel of next word). 57. Which of the following endings always has stress on the second-last syllable? A) -ed. B) -tion. C) -ly. D) -ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -tion. 58. Linking /r/ is pronounced in word bounderies before ..... when the sound belongs to the word. A) Consonants. B) Vowels. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vowels. 59. The following words all contain the segment /k/. In which of them is it pronounced as the allophone [k$^{h}$]? A) Actually. B) Attic. C) Accomplish. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accomplish. 60. Which of the following words demonstrates the Flap T? A) Fish. B) Dog. C) Cat. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesConnected Speech Quiz 1Connected Speech Quiz 2Connected 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