English Linguistics MCQs for Lecturership by Suhail

English Linguistics MCQs for Lecturership

Quiz

 

1. When fricatives are produced air escapes through a narrow passage &
   makes a_____sound
   1.   Vistle
   2.   Musical
   3.   Hissing
   4.   None
2. Fricatives are_____where as plosives aren’t______
   1.   Sounds
   2.   Continuants
   3.   Consonant
   4.   Vowel
3. Affricates are begin as_____& end as_____
   1.   Fricative, Plosive
   2.   Nasal, fortis
   3.   Forti, Nasal
   4.   Plosive, Fricatives
4. Which of the following is an affricate
   1.   /b/
   2.   /tf/
   3.   /m/
   4.   None
5. Plosives are also called___
   1.   Fricatives
   2.   Dental
   3.   Nasal
   4.   Stops
6. Homorganics are___
   1.   Sounds that produced with same organ
   2.   Vowel sounds
   3.   Sound with same length
   4.   None
7. Sounds like ‘sh’ & /3/ produced with_______
   1.   Front teeth
   2.   Alveolar ridge & Tongue blade
   3.   Both lips
   4.   None
8. We only count____&_____ as Affricate phonemes
   1.   /dr/, /fv/
   2.   /tf/, /dz/
   3.   /ts/, /j/
   4.   None
9. Pronunciation of word Church is composed of____phonemes
   1.   5
   2.   2
   3.   8
   4.   3
10. ____fricatives are articulated with more force than that of_____
    1.   Lenis, fortis
    2.   Fortis, Voiceless
    3.   Lenis, voived
    4.   Fortis, Lenis
11. Lenis fricatives have voicing in inittial & final when they occur
    between____sounds
    1.   Voiced
    2.   Voiceless
    3.   B.O.T
    4.   None
12. In English, replacing one phoneme with another causes______
    1.   No change
    2.   Only pronunciation change
    3.   Pronunciation & meaning change
    4.   None
13. When we produce /tf/ & /dz/ affricates our lips are______
    1.   Closed
    2.   Come together
    3.   Rounded
    4.   None
14. Fortis sounds are usually articulated with_____glottis
    1.   Open
    2.   Open and Closed
    3.   Both
    4.   None
15. The word ‘nature’ can phonetically trancribed with glottalisation as_____
    1.   /neI?tfa/
    2.   /naetf/
    3.   /neItfa?
    4.   AOT
16. The plosive, Fricatives and Affricatices combinely give us how many
    consonants?
    1.   Seventeen
    2.   Ten
    3.   Nineteen
    4.   Fifteen
17. The number of nasal consonants in English_____
    1.   7
    2.   3
    3.   9
    4.   None
18. ‘How sounds are produced’ is comes under umbrella of_____
    1.   Plaace of articulation
    2.   Manner of articulation
    3.   Both
    4.   None
19. Stops are also called_____
    1.   Nasal
    2.   Fricative
    3.   Plosive
    4.   None
20. When Nasal sounds produced____is completely closed
    1.   Nasal cavity
    2.   Oral cavity
    3.   Glottis
    4.   AOT
21. ____Is___ produced when Liquids are made
    1.   Friction, largely
    2.   Friction, hardly
    3.   Not, Friction
    4.   Friction, Not
22. During the production of_____sounds, the airstream escaping around on
    the sides of tongue
    1.   Nasal
    2.   Fricatives
    3.   Affricates
    4.   None
23. _____sounds are produced when tongue is curled back
    1.   Retroflex
    2.   Lateral
    3.   Nasa
    4.   None
24. ____ are considered as phonological building blocks of words
    
    1.   Phoneme
    2.   Morpheme
    3.   Syllable
    4.   None
25. The word that contain many syllables are said to be a_____
    1.   Mono-syllable
    2.   Poly-syllable
    3.   Di-syllable
    4.   None
26. Semi-vowels are also called_____
    1.   Vowels
    2.   Consonants
    3.   Semi-consonants
    4.   Approximant
27. Fortis production needs_____ force than that of lenis
    1.   Less
    2.   Some
    3.   More
    4.   NOT