MCQ Bank
When the vocal folds are apart, the resultant sounds are called ________.
- A) voiceless
- B) voiced
- C) glottal
- D) nasal
Which of the following is NOT a labiodental sound?
- A) /v/
- B) /m/
- C) /f/
- D) [ɱ]
Which of the following symbols presents voiced bilabial trill?
- A) ʙ
- B) ʁ
- C) m
- D) b
In approximants, trills, taps and _______ are also commonly found with different articulatory gestures in the world languages.
- A) clicks
- B) flaps
- C)
- D)
As an important part of phonetics, acoustics is the study of the physics of the _______.
- A) articulatory mechanism
- B) auditory mechanism
- C) speech signals
- D) speech quality
Which of the following sound is presented by the symbol [t̪]?
- A) Dental stop
- B) Fricative
- C) Dental fricative
- D) Bilabial stop
Which of the following sounds are easily distinguishable using the voicing features?
- A) Sonorants
- B) Approximants
- C) Plosives
- D) Fricatives
Which of the following symbols presents voiced labiodental flap?
- A) B
- B) b
- C) p
- D) *
Which of the following symbols present retroflex sounds?
- A) [θ, ð]
- B) [ʈ, ɽ]
- C) [f, v]
- D) [ɸ, β]
In tube models theory, vocal tract is taken as a ________.
- A) bucket
- B) flute
- C) tube
- D) drum
Phoneticians are particularly interested in analyzing _______ acoustically.
- A) vowels
- B) syllables
- C) consonants
- D) segments
Source-filter theory is a model of _______.
- A) speech production
- B) speech perception
- C) speech signals
- D) speech recognition
Which of the following symbols presents voiced alveolar trill?
- A) ɽ
- B) ʀ
- C) r
- D) ʁ
What is another name for larynx?
- A) Trachea
- B) Vocal folds
- C) Adam’s apple
- D) Sound box
VOT stands for _______.
- A) Voice on Time
- B) Voice Onset Time
- C) Voice Offset Time
- D) Voice off time
In source-filter theory, source represents _______.
- A) tongue
- B) larynx
- C) tongue tip
- D) soft palate
Every time the vocal folds open and close, there is a pulse of _______ energy.
- A) muscle
- B) auditory
- C) acoustic
- D) articulatory
The glottis is defined as the space between the _______.
- A) trachea
- B) lungs
- C) pharynx
- D) vocal folds
Which of the following is the correct symbol for voiced bilabial fricative?
- A) [b+]
- B) [p+]
- C) [β]
- D) [ɸ]
In phonetics and phonology, speech sounds (segments) using basic units of contrast are defined as _______.
- A) contrasts
- B) gestures
- C) descriptions
- D) transcriptions