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 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What sound might disappear in the following: "I can't swim." ? A) The /w/ in swim. B) The /t/ in can't. C) The /n/ in can't. D) The /s/ in swim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The /t/ in can't. 2. Which word begins with a consonant sound even though the first written letter is a vowel? A) Universe. B) Uncle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Universe. 3. Which of the followings are continuous consonants? A) P, t, k, g. B) M, n, l, r. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M, n, l, r. 4. Choose the correct contraction for these words:have got to A) Shoulda. B) Havta. C) Gotta. D) Whota. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gotta. 5. Vegetablechoose the correct way to pronounce A) Ve table. B) Vegetable. C) Veg-table. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Veg-table. 6. Thruough this process an additional sound "intrudes" or inserts itself between others. A) Geminates. B) Elision. C) Assimilation. D) Catenation or Linking. E) Intrusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Intrusion. 7. What type of vowels are considered to not have any stress? A) Diphthongs. B) Short vowels. C) Neutral vowels (unstressed schwa). D) Long vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neutral vowels (unstressed schwa). 8. When listing items intonation ..... on the last word. A) Rises. B) Falls. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falls. 9. In the phrase good point in rapid speech, the letter d will be pronounced as: A) It will be elided. B) B. C) T. D) P. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 10. What is the main purpose of Tim's Pronunciation Workshop? A) To teach how English is really spoken. B) To discuss his late-night adventures. C) To show off his shed. D) To interview people in London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To teach how English is really spoken. 11. What is intrusion in connected speech? A) A sound is changed. B) A vowel is reduced. C) A sound is inserted between two vowels. D) A sound is deleted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sound is inserted between two vowels. 12. What are the two main modifications of words in connected speech? A) Phonetic and phonological modifications. B) Lexical and grammatical modifications. C) Segmental and suprasegmental modifications. D) Syntactic and semantic modifications. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Segmental and suprasegmental modifications. 13. Cats or dogs? How would you say it? A) Cats or dogs?. B) Catserdogs?. C) Catsdogs. D) Cats and dogs?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catserdogs?. 14. Linking is a way of joining the pronunciation of two words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. The English tone can be classified into ..... A) Simple and Complex. B) Moving and Level. C) Rising and Falling. D) Rise-fall and Fall-rise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple and Complex. 16. What happens in "don't you" ? A) Reciprocal assimilation. B) Elision. C) Flapping. D) Regressive assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reciprocal assimilation. 17. How many written forms of compound word? A) 4. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 18. When speaking, we can often link a word with another word that is ..... A) Anywhere in the same sentence. B) Directly before or after it. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directly before or after it. 19. What is intonation in speech? A) The modification of voice pitch when producing connected speech. B) The volume of speech. C) The speed of speaking. D) The clarity of pronunciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The modification of voice pitch when producing connected speech. 20. What aspect of connected speech is in the following sentence? "Who is?" A) Linking. B) Elision. C) Contraction. D) Assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linking. 21. The following example is an example of which process?Social life $\rightarrow$ socialife A) Intrusion. B) Geminates. C) Assimilation. D) Elision. E) Catenation or Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geminates. 22. Kenny has gone to France and back (8 syllables)How many stressed syllables are there? A) 2. B) 7. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 23. Assimilation affects: A) Only vowels. B) Only consonants. C) Usually adjacent consonants. D) Intonation patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Usually adjacent consonants. 24. Which consonants can be dropped?Could you hand me that pen? A) /d/ in could. B) /d/ in hand. C) /t/ in that. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /d/ in hand. 25. Give an example of vowel reduction in connected speech. A) Going to the store. B) The largest lake in the world. C) Law and order. D) Read and write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Going to the store. 26. What is linking in connected speech? A) Changing one sound into another. B) Joining a final sound of one word to the first sound of the next. C) Adding a sound to break words. D) Deleting a consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joining a final sound of one word to the first sound of the next. 27. The word piano has ..... syllable(s). A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three. 28. What is the connected pronunciation of "turn off" ? A) Turnoff. B) Tu rnoff. C) Tur noff. D) Turno ff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turnoff. 29. Chicken is my favourite ..... to eat. A) Mit. B) Meet. C) Meat. D) Mite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meat. 30. In "she is, " the inserted sound is: A) /r/. B) /j/. C) /w/. D) /h/. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /j/. 31. Which example illustrates the concept of external open juncture? A) My turn. B) That boy. C) Ten cups. D) Get them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My turn. 32. Why does vowel reduction occur in connected speech? A) To make speech slower. B) To add more stress to the vowels. C) Due to the rapid nature of connected speech, the speaker doesn't have time to fully move the articulators. D) Because speakers want to emphasize vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Due to the rapid nature of connected speech, the speaker doesn't have time to fully move the articulators. 33. The rhythm in English speech is A) Relative. B) Compulsory. C) Absolute. D) Optional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relative. 34. "I might go to your place" has: A) One example of assimilation of place. B) Two examples of assimilation of place. C) Three examples of assimilation of place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One example of assimilation of place. 35. Why might sentence stress create difficulty for those learning English? A) Because it is easy to understand. B) Because it is the same as in their native language. C) Because the stress patterns differ from English. D) Because it is not important in communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because the stress patterns differ from English. 36. When is a /d/ a /b/? A) Ten pin bowling. B) Good girl. C) These shops. D) Good boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good boy. 37. English is a stress-timed language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. Which sound is used to create liaison in the following phrase?blue angel A) T. B) S. C) R. D) J. E) W. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) W. 39. What is the correct pronunciation for "ecological" ? A) ECOlogical. B) EcoLOgical. C) Ecological. D) EcoloGIcal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EcoLOgical. 40. In the phrase "go on, " which type of linking occurs? A) Intrusive /w/. B) Assimilation. C) Linking /l/. D) Linking /r/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intrusive /w/. 41. (a) is the disappearance of sounds in speech. A) Linking. B) Assimilation. C) Rhythm. D) A. Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. Elision. 42. Stressed syllables are different from unstressed syllables because they are more ..... A) Obscure. B) Important. C) Prominent. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prominent. 43. Which consonants can be dropped?I told her to wait for me. A) /d/ in told. B) /h/ in her. C) /t/ in wait. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /h/ in her. 44. The foot is the unit of rythm in English. It is composed by ..... A) One stressed syllable. B) One stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable. C) One syllable. D) At the beginning, a stressed syllable that includes all following syllables up to (but NOT including) the next stressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the beginning, a stressed syllable that includes all following syllables up to (but NOT including) the next stressed syllable. 45. In assimilation, when a sound changes due to a following sound, it is called: A) Regressive. B) Progressive. C) Coalescence. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regressive. 46. The regressive asimilation have the effect of: A) Change the final consonant to be like the initial consonant of the another word. B) Change the initial consonant to be like the final consonant of the another word. C) Apparition of a new phoneme that replaces initial and final phonemes. D) Disapparition of both phonemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change the final consonant to be like the initial consonant of the another word. 47. The ..... is any unstressed syllables before the first stressed syllable. A) Pre-head. B) Tonic syllable. C) Tail. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pre-head. 48. Intrusion is when two words are said together, an extra sound is sometimes placed between them in order to make them easier to say. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. The ..... rises in the sky. A) Son. B) Sone. C) Sun. D) Cun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 50. What are the characteristics of stressed syllables that enable us to identify them? A) Production and perception. B) Muscular energy and production. C) Perception and transcription. D) Loudness and length. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Production and perception. 51. What is intrusion? A) Stressing each syllable. B) Inserting /r/, /w/, or /j/ between two vowels. C) Emphasizing final consonants. D) Deleting weak vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inserting /r/, /w/, or /j/ between two vowels. 52. What are transitional phonemes? A) Phonemes that are fully produced. B) Phonemes that are substituted in a word. C) Phonemes that are removed from a word. D) Phonemes that differ from true phonemes as they are not "fully" produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phonemes that differ from true phonemes as they are not "fully" produced. 53. Stress-timed rythm theory implies that ..... A) In most of cases, all syllables will tend to occur at regular intervals of time. B) In most of cases, all stress syllables will tend to occur at irregular intervals of time. C) In most of cases, , all stress syllables will tend to occur at regular intervals of time. D) In most of cases, all stress syllables will tend to sound stronger than the unstress syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In most of cases, , all stress syllables will tend to occur at regular intervals of time. 54. Which phrase most favors /t/ elision in a cluster? A) Arrive early. B) Last month. C) Blue sky. D) Go away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Last month. 55. We say "too often" with 'w' link as ..... A) Too often w. B) Toowoften. C) Wtoooften. D) Toooftenw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Toowoften. 56. What are intonational phrases? A) The speed of speech in a sentence. B) A single intonation pattern in a sentence. C) Two intonation patterns found in one sentence. D) The volume changes in a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two intonation patterns found in one sentence. 57. Which of the following is NOT a kind of elision? A) Historical Elision. B) Consonant Elision. C) Phonetic Elision. D) Optional Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phonetic Elision. 58. If we want to place the stress in the first syllable in numbers that include the word-teen, which aspects do we have to consider? A) It is used when counting. B) It is located in the final part of the sentence. C) It is used to make a distinction. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is used when counting. 59. Which of the following example is '' /t/ assimilates to /g/ A) That gate. B) That bag. C) That cat. D) That shop. 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