This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 13 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In phonotactic terms, what is the maximum number of consonants allowed in an onset? A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 2. Linking is:a transition between words in connected speech. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. In rapid speech, /t/ and /d/ are elided (omitted) when they occur at the end of word (or word stem) or in between two consonants. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. I use ..... pen to write an essay. A) Blew. B) Blue. C) Bilo. D) Biluo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blue. 5. Compound nouns typically receive stress on the: A) Second word. B) First word. C) Suffix. D) Vowel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First word. 6. Coalescent assimilation is when a phoneme appears to replace another pair of phonemes A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. The variations in the pitch of a speaker's voice used to convey or alter meaning A) Intonation. B) Elision. C) Consonant. D) Sentence stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intonation. 8. What is the unit of rhythm? A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Inch. D) Centimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 9. Assimilation is the general term in phonetics for the process by which a speech sound becomes similar or identical to a neighboring sound. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Assimilation and Elision can be used widely in both formal & casual speech. True or false? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Which of the following words from Latinate Origin has an incorrect stress? A) ProClAIM. B) COMpare. C) ExIST. D) ProTEST. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) COMpare. 12. The pronunciation of a syllable with more respiratory energy or muscular force than other syllables in the same word A) Intonation. B) Sentence stress. C) Word stress. D) Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word stress. 13. Why do connected speech processes occur? A) To confuse listeners. B) To improve grammar. C) To make speech faster and smoother. D) To create new words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make speech faster and smoother. 14. Red comb A) Voicing assimilation. B) Coalescent assimilation. C) Manner assimilation. D) Place assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Place assimilation. 15. Which of these has 'INTRUSIVE /r/'? A) New agent. B) Ice cream. C) Car exhibition. D) Media event. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Media event. 16. The garden is full of beautiful ..... A) Floor. B) Floored. C) Flour. D) Flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flower. 17. I really want to lose ten pounds. [ ten pounds ] A) Assimilation. B) Elision & intrusive /w/. C) Elision. D) Intrusive /j/. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assimilation. 18. When is a /t/ a /p/? A) Good girl. B) These shops. C) Bit part. D) White car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bit part. 19. What type of linking occurs in "dark green" ? A) The consonant at the end of the first word is similar to the one at the start of the second, so they join together. B) The same consonant is at the end of the first word and the start of the second, so it's only pronounced once. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The consonant at the end of the first word is similar to the one at the start of the second, so they join together. 20. Vowel Reduction A) Vowel shift to stressed. B) Vowel shift to schwa in stressed words. C) Vowel shift to schwa in unstressed syllables. D) More relaxed vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vowel shift to schwa in unstressed syllables. 21. What is the common feature of the following sounds?/p/, /t/, /k/ and /b/, /d/, /g/ A) Voiced plosives and unvoiced plosives. B) Unvoiced plosives and voiced plosives. C) Aspirated sounds. D) Voiced stops and unvoiced stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unvoiced plosives and voiced plosives. 22. There ..... types of assimilation: A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 23. When people talk, they often blend words together and make some changes in the sounds. This is ..... A) A sign of sloppy, lazy speech. B) A sign that the speaker is thinking carefully about these changes. C) A normal part of everyone's speech. D) Mostly a characteristic of uneducated speakers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A normal part of everyone's speech. 24. Connected speech refers to: A) How sentences are written on paper. B) How sounds change or disappear when we speak quickly. C) How we connect words with punctuation marks. D) How we choose vocabulary in a conversation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How sounds change or disappear when we speak quickly. 25. What sound might disappear in the following: "I can't swim." ? A) The /n/ in can't. B) The /t/ in can't. C) The /s/ in swim. D) The /w/ in swim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The /t/ in can't. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesConnected Speech Quiz 1Connected Speech Quiz 2Connected Speech Quiz 3Connected Speech Quiz 4Connected Speech Quiz 5Connected Speech Quiz 6Connected Speech Quiz 7Connected Speech Quiz 8Connected Speech Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books