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 (30 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) Help the speaker speak more clearly. B) Make the intonation more rhythmical. 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 flight. C) /t/ in to. D) /t/ in get. 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) Gejouout. B) 'gechou out. C) Get you out. D) Getyouout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) '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) Goyahead. C) Gowahead. D) Go ahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gowahead. 6. When does linking usually happen? A) Between vowels. B) After glottal stops. C) Between consonants. D) At the end of a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 9. Which type of elision occurs when sounds are omitted in present-day English? A) Optional Elision. B) Consonant Elision. C) Vowel 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) The right key. D) Have to stay. 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 'felt'. B) /t/ in 'first'. C) /d/ in 'screamed'. D) /d/ in 'second'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) /d/ in 'screamed'. 16. Which connected speech type has been undergone here?*I want this orange $\rightarrow$ thisorange A) Elision. B) Intrusion. C) Assimilation. D) Geminates. E) Catenation or Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Catenation or Linking. 17. When a consonant phoneme will change to sound more like another consonant that is near it. A) Strong. B) Assimilation. C) Elision. D) Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assimilation. 18. Which process causes /d/ to become /b/ in "good boy" ? A) Assimilation. B) Linking. C) Intrusion. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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) Telugu. B) English. C) Chinese. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Juncture. C) Catenation. D) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catenation. 22. Which syllables usually receive stress? A) Silent. B) Strong. C) Weak. D) Word-final. 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) Intrusive /w/. B) Intrusive /r/. C) Assimilation. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) /n/. B) /d/. C) /t/. D) /s/. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) /t/. 27. "next week" $\rightarrow$ This is ..... A) Coalescence. B) /t/ elision in cluster. C) Vowel insertion. D) /k/ elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /t/ elision in cluster. 28. The one word that in a sentence that is most likely to recieve sentence stress is ..... A) The subject of the sentence. B) The first word in the sentence. C) The longest word in the sentence. D) The last content word of the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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) Catenation or Linking. B) Assimilation. C) Geminates. D) Intrusion. E) Elision. 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