This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Phonetics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Phonetics Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Instrumental methods ..... A) Are the part of the oldest phonetics researches. B) Are based on the use of special technical devices, such as hand mirror, intonograph, xray photography and cinematography and others. C) Are methods of cheking the way of sounding of musical instruments. D) Consist in observing the movements and positions of one's own or other people's organs of speech in pronouncing various speech sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are based on the use of special technical devices, such as hand mirror, intonograph, xray photography and cinematography and others. 2. Strong or weak? $\rightarrow$ k A) Strong. B) Weak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strong. 3. The word 'seldom' has A) A) Two syllables with no stress. B) Two syllables with stress on both. C) Two syllables with stress on first. D) Two syllables with stress on second. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two syllables with stress on first. 4. I ..... a crocodile in the river. A) So. B) Saw. C) Speed. D) Fly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saw. 5. A sound produced with a comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, is called ..... A) A Vowel. B) A Consonant. C) A Power. D) A Word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Vowel. 6. Critical listening is to A) Talk. B) Judge. C) See. D) Funny. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Judge. 7. The Earth is situated in the middle of? A) Mars and Jupiter. B) Mercury and Venus. C) Mars and Mercury. D) Venus and Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus and Mars. 8. The phonemes /p/, /b/, & /m/ are described as ..... A) Interdental. B) Bilabial. C) Labiodental. D) Glottal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bilabial. 9. Which letter is silent in castle and nestle? A) N. B) T. C) L. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. 10. Life wife mine dinner A) Wife. B) Dinner. C) Life. D) Mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dinner. 11. The process of phonation (or voicing) takes place in the glottis A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. Which dialect is considered as Received Pronunciation? A) East Midland. B) West Midlands. C) Southern. D) Scottish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East Midland. 13. When we had passed to border we could finally relax. A) Last sound is t. B) Last sound is d. C) Last sound is something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Last sound is t. 14. What is the longest human bone? A) Femur. B) Tibia. C) Fibula. D) Breastbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 15. Identify the word that does not have /a:/ sound. A) Dance. B) Castle. C) Arrow. D) Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arrow. 16. The word has stress which is placed differently A) Weaken. B) Relieve. C) Article. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relieve. 17. Find the word in which vowel is pronounced like /i:/! A) Idiot. B) Lip. C) Mean. D) Breakfast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean. 18. WHAT IS A CONSONANT PAIR? A) Is when the mouth position required to make two sounds in the same, but one sound is unvoiced and one sound is voiced. B) Is when the mouth position required to make two sounds in the same, the two sounds are unvoiced. C) Is when the mouth position required to make two sounds in the same, the two sounds are voiced. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is when the mouth position required to make two sounds in the same, but one sound is unvoiced and one sound is voiced. 19. This is a barrier for non-native speakers of English during language acquisition A) Syllabic language barrier. B) Indian English. C) Mother Tongue Interference. D) Received Pronunciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother Tongue Interference. 20. Which letter is silent in ghost, heir, and hour? A) R. B) H. C) E. D) G. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) H. 21. What is the syllable structure of 'she'? A) V. B) Vc. C) Cv. D) Cvc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cv. 22. How do you say the word "computer" ? A) COMputer. B) ComPUter. C) CompuTER. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ComPUter. 23. Is the process by which sound waves hit the eardrum. A) Speaking. B) Reading. C) Writing. D) Listening. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Listening. 24. Falling intonation is used here. A) Question tag. B) Yes/ No question. C) Request. D) Wh question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wh question. 25. How many Pure Vowel sounds are there in English A) 6. B) 10. C) 12. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 26. What is the type of sounds in GIRL A) Court. B) Long. C) Diphthong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long. 27. I want to travel around the world, ..... I am very poor A) And. B) But. C) Or. D) So. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) But. 28. Which speech sound is bilabial? A) L. B) B. C) N. D) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 29. Ottawa is the capital of? A) Taiwan. B) Korea. C) Canada. D) Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canada. 30. A. width B. that C. then D. them A) C. B) B. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. 31. How many pure vowels are there in English? A) 13. B) 12. C) 11. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 32. What is the only letter in alphabet that can be a vowel and a consonant at the same time? A) The letter "Y". B) The letter "F". C) The Letter "A". D) The Letter "B". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The letter "Y". 33. How many consonant sounds are there in English A) 12. B) 24. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 24. 34. The study of human speech sounds in a language that form systematized patterns is called ..... A) PHONETICS. B) PHONOLOGY. C) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY. D) ARTICULATORS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PHONOLOGY. 35. Phonetics is also conceived as the ..... of the language. A) Mechanics. B) Philosophy. C) Understanding. D) Interpretation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanics. 36. This brunch studies the acoustic aspect of speech sounds (their physical properties). A) Articulatory phonetics. B) Acoustic phonetics. C) Auditory phonetics. D) Phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acoustic phonetics. 37. Indicate in which syllable the word fly is pronounced. A) Without syllables. B) Type I. C) IV type. D) II type. E) III type. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type I. 38. Is the discipline that studies sounds as physical events. A) Phonemes. B) Phonetics. C) Phonology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phonetics. 39. Pround about around would A) Pround. B) Would. C) About. D) Around. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Would. 40. He reached for his wallet, but had no money. A) Last sound is t. B) Last sound is d. C) Last sound is something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Last sound is t. 41. The letter "E" is in the second syllable. A) Meet. B) See. C) Speak. D) Pet. E) Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pet. 42. What does roundedness refer to? A) The movement of the tongue. B) The rounding of the lips. C) The constriction of airflow. D) The location of the vowel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rounding of the lips. 43. Syllables have an element called rhyme. Rhyme is made of two elements, which are they? A) Coda and onset. B) Onset and nucleus. C) Nucleus and coda. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleus and coda. 44. Indicate which of the following words, according to their pronunciation, is in type IV syllable. A) Her. B) Men. C) See. D) Perfume. E) Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Here. 45. Which branch of it (Phonetics) have we been studying in class lately? A) Acoustics. B) Auditory. C) Articulatory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Articulatory. 46. Lola ..... Spanish exam today. A) Great. B) Future. C) Passed. D) Past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Passed. 47. The phoneme is ..... A) The smallest unit of reading of a language. B) The smallest unit of speech of a language. C) The difference between a sound and a letter. . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The smallest unit of speech of a language. 48. How many vowels are there in the word 'open' A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 49. Speech sounds have aspects: A) Articulatory, acoustic, auditory, and functional. B) Positive, negative and neutral. C) Single, plural and multiple. D) Elementary, complicated and medium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Articulatory, acoustic, auditory, and functional. 50. Talking about consonants, place:labio-dental A) Dental. B) Lip-dental. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lip-dental. 51. A. shoots B. grounds C. concentrates D. forests A) A. B) D. C) B. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B. 52. Are where and were pronounced the same way? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 53. It is not the smallest unit of sound, it is the smallest meaningul contrastive unit in a writing system. A) Phoneme. B) Phone. C) Grapheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grapheme. 54. What is the type of sounds in SEVEN A) Court. B) Long. C) Diphthong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Court. 55. He dragged me to the pub every evening A) Last sound is t. B) Last sound is d. C) Last sound is something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Last sound is d. 56. The sound is loud. A) F, f. B) R, r. C) In, in. D) T, t. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F, f. 57. How many phonemes are there in English language A) 21. B) 24. C) 22. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 21. 58. What is the manner of articulation for the sound [w]? A) Nasal. B) Fricative. C) Glide. D) Stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glide. 59. A. tombs B. lamps C. brakes D. invites A) C. B) B. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. 60. I will ..... a dolphin in the ocean. A) See. B) Sea. C) Octopus. D) Shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPhonetics Quiz 1Phonetics Quiz 2Phonetics Quiz 4Phonetics Quiz 5Assimilation In Speech QuizConnected Speech QuizConsonant Clusters Pronunciation QuizConsonant Clusters Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books