MCQ Bank
While interpreting vowels, first _______ formant(s) should be carefully seen.
- A) four
- B) two
- C) one
- D) three
No sound other than a/an ________ can stand alone as a whole syllable.
- A) vowel
- B) consonant
- C) alphabet
- D) letter
Spanish has a very simple system contrasting only _______ vowel sounds.
- A) eleven
- B) seven
- C) nine
- D) five
One should watch for a burst and aspiration in _______ sounds.
- A) fricative
- B) bilabial
- C) stop
- D) velar
Which of the following sounds shows high locus of the second formant?
- A) Velar
- B) Stop
- C) Fricative
- D) Bilabial
Which of the following is a diacritic for nasalization?
- A) ꜚ
- B) ∟
- C) –
- D) ῀
British English has ________ vowels in total.
- A) 20
- B) 22
- C) 26
- D) 24
In English, the sound /w/ and /j/ are considered ________.
- A) pure consonants
- B) pure vowels
- C) semivowels
- D) diphthongs
Which of the following sounds would show gap in spectrographic pattern?
- A) Fricative
- B) Velar
- C) Bilabial
- D) Stop
Frontness or backness of a vowel is determined by the position of _______.
- A) tongue
- B) teeth
- C) lips
- D) jaw
Which of the following sounds shows comparatively low second and third formants?
- A) Fricative
- B) Bilabial
- C) Stop
- D) Velar
Which of the following vowel sounds (in the given words) will be uttered with rounded lips?
- A) Bat
- B) Put
- C) But
- D) Set
Which of the following languages does NOT have nasal vowels?
- A) Urdu
- B) English
- C) Punjabi
- D) Siraiki
Which of the following varieties of English has been reported to have same vowel pronunciation in ‘cot’ and ‘caught’?
- A) Canadian English
- B) Californian English
- C) British English
- D) Indian English
R-coloring is also termed as _______.
- A) nasalization
- B) rhotacization
- C) laterality
- D) proximity
Vowels, nasals and approximants are usually _______ sounds.
- A) breathy
- B) voiceless
- C) shrill
- D) voiced
The air in the vocal tract is set in vibration by the action of the _______.
- A) lips
- B) tongue
- C) pharynx
- D) vocal folds
Which of the following symbols presents rhotic approximant?
- A) [ɹ]
- B) [B]
- C) [*]
- D) /t/
Keeping in mind the idea of perturbation theory, we can derive that the resonance frequencies will ________.
- A) change
- B) improve
- C) stay constant
- D) extinct
In most voiced sounds, _______ formant(s) is/are produced every time the vocal folds (source) vibrate.
- A) two
- B) one
- C) three
- D) four