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

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