Phonetics Test
20 Questions
| Total Attempts: 154
Questions and Answers
- 1.In longer words with late stress we might have three winds of stress
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Yod coalescence is a wind of assimilation
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Liaison should not be applied in English.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.The intrusive r occurs whenever one word ends and another begins with a vowel
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.English is a syllable timed language
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.The articles never occur in their strong forms
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.In English stressed syllables tend to occur at equal intervals of time
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.An English foot can begins either with a stressed or unstressed syllable
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Weak forms are used mainly when the word is unstressed
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Prepositions if found at the end of a utterance, appear in their strong form
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Suffix-ette belongs to suffixes which carry the stress
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Every English word has both primary and secondary stress
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Alveolar consonants are stable, i.e. not likely to undergo elision or assimilation
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Suffix ‘graphy’ influences stress in the stem of a word
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Suprasegmental phonetics deals with the sounds produced in the upper part of the vocal tract
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.In longer words often more syllables than one must be stressed
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.The antepenultimate syllable is the second syllable from the end of a word
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.The linking “r” is used only after certain vowels
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Words with identical spelling, e.g. abstract or produce have an early stress? Nouns and adjectives
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.In case of morphologically simple words there is a tendency to stress? Diphthongs and the ones, which end with more than one consonant
- A.
True
- B.
False
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