This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 6 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Elision of /t/, /d/ happens when the following word starts with any consonant except ..... A) /d/. B) /w/. C) /h/. D) /t/. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) /h/. 2. Go out ..... Wich is the correct sound? A) Go out. B) Gowout. C) Goout. D) Goyout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gowout. 3. When is a /d/ a /g/? A) Good bike. B) These shops. C) This shirt. D) Good girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good girl. 4. Right-to-left (ex. the /s/ will become rounded in the word "soon") A) Regressive assimilation. B) Single bar juncture. C) Progressive assimilation. D) Internal juncture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regressive assimilation. 5. Why does elision occur? A) To ease pronunciation. B) To slow down speech. C) To make spelling easier. D) To stress consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To ease pronunciation. 6. "am, are, were, was" are used in their strong forms when: A) They are at the beginning of a sentence. B) They are after nouns. C) They are in final position. D) They are before nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are in final position. 7. What is considered when transcribing at the single word level? A) Phoneme isolation. B) Connected speech. C) Citation form. D) Utterance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Citation form. 8. When is a /t/ a /k/? A) Ten green bottles. B) White paper. C) Bit part. D) The right key. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The right key. 9. What happens in "go on" ? A) Linking /r/. B) Elision. C) Linking /l/. D) Intrusive /w/. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intrusive /w/. 10. Which sound is used to create liaison in the following phrase?marched in A) W. B) J. C) R. D) D. E) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) T. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Go on, try again! [ go on ] A) Liasion. B) Assimilation. C) Intrusive /w/. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intrusive /w/. 14. Next door ..... How would you say it? A) Nextwdoor. B) Nexdoor. C) Next door. D) Nextdoor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nexdoor. 15. 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. 16. Pet turtle ..... How would you say it? A) Pet turtle. B) Petjturtle. C) Petturtle. D) Peturtle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peturtle. 17. ..... is the disappearance of sounds in speech. A) Linking. B) Assimilation. C) Rhythm. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elision. 18. Which sounds in "I went there last week." are omitted? A) I, went. B) There, week. C) Last, week. D) Went, last. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Went, last. 19. 'take me out' ..... How would you say it? A) Me out'. B) Me'yout. C) Meout. D) Takewmeout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Me'yout. 20. 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. 21. Which of the following shows intrusive /j/? A) I agree. B) I ought. C) I eat. D) I am. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I am. 22. 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'. 23. Which following options doesn't have rhythm? A) Normal people heartbeat. B) Flash light. C) The way we write syllables to form a sentence. D) A piece of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way we write syllables to form a sentence. 24. Which of these numbers have the stress on the first syllable? A) 35. B) 30. C) 17th. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30. 25. In the sentence "He didn't come, " which sound is being elided? A) /t/. B) /d/. C) /k/. D) /n/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) /t/. 26. 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). 27. Which of the following endings always has stress on the second-last syllable? A) -ing. B) -ly. C) -tion. D) -ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -tion. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. Which of the following words demonstrates the Flap T? A) Fish. B) Cat. C) Water. D) Dog. 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