This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 7 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a question tag is asking for confirmation the intonation goes A) Up. B) Down. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down. 2. The ..... produces no audible sound. A) The on-glide. B) The hold stage. C) The medial stage. D) The off-glide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The on-glide. 3. Everychoose the correct way to pronuounce A) Ev-ry. B) Every. C) E ry. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ev-ry. 4. Which word is an example of stress shift due to suffixation? A) 'photo' $\rightarrow$ 'photography'. B) 'car' $\rightarrow$ 'carpet'. C) 'bottle' $\rightarrow$ 'bottling'. D) 'think' $\rightarrow$ 'thinking'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'photo' $\rightarrow$ 'photography'. 5. How many consonants can occur at the end of an English syllable? A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four. 6. Intrusion is when we add an extra sound to help link two words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Choose the word that has main stress placed differently from the others A) Location. B) Disagree. C) Refugee. D) Explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Location. 8. Read the sentences aloud. Which has a pair of words that link? A) James works for his father. B) Jenny works for her uncle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jenny works for her uncle. 9. Elision of /t/, /d/ happens when the following word starts with any consonant except ..... A) /t/. B) /d/. C) /h/. D) /w/. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) /h/. 10. Go out ..... Wich is the correct sound? A) Goout. B) Goyout. C) Go out. D) Gowout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gowout. 11. When is a /d/ a /g/? A) This shirt. B) These shops. C) Good bike. D) Good girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good girl. 12. Right-to-left (ex. the /s/ will become rounded in the word "soon") A) Single bar juncture. B) Internal juncture. C) Regressive assimilation. D) Progressive assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regressive assimilation. 13. Why does elision occur? A) To slow down speech. B) To make spelling easier. C) To ease pronunciation. D) To stress consonants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To ease pronunciation. 14. "Bittersweet" A) A way to say someone has found stability in life. B) To appear suddenly and unexpectedly. C) A mix of both happiness and sadness. D) Suggesting that love can either be enduring or painful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mix of both happiness and sadness. 15. "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 before nouns. D) They are in final position. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are in final position. 16. What is considered when transcribing at the single word level? A) Connected speech. B) Citation form. C) Utterance. D) Phoneme isolation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citation form. 17. When is a /t/ a /k/? A) The right key. B) Ten green bottles. C) Bit part. D) White paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The right key. 18. What happens in "go on" ? A) Linking /r/. B) Linking /l/. C) Intrusive /w/. D) Elision. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intrusive /w/. 19. Elision means: A) Adding a vowel. B) Changing a sound. C) Omitting a sound. D) Stressing a vowel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omitting a sound. 20. $\leftarrow$ A) S1 changes to accommodate features of S2. B) S2 changes to accommodate features of S1. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) S1 changes to accommodate features of S2. 21. Which sound is used to create liaison in the following phrase?marched in A) W. B) D. C) T. D) J. E) R. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. Green pants A) Voice assimilation. B) Place assimilation. C) Manner assimilation. D) Coalescent assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place assimilation. 25. Go on, try again! [ go on ] A) Assimilation. B) Elision. C) Liasion. D) Intrusive /w/. 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