Final Review
What is the final sound of the word "laugh"?
/f/
What is the first sound of the word "who"?
/h/
What is the middle sound of the word "beat"?
/i/
What is the first sound of the word "unique?
/j/
What is the first sound of the word "kneel"?
/n/
What is the final sound of the word "wax"?
/s/
What is the first sound of the word "tsunami"?
/s/
What is the final sound of the word "smoked"?
/t/
What is the first sound of the word "Thai"?
/t/
What is the final sound of the word "bombs"?
/z/
What is the first sound of the word "apple"?
/æ/
What is the final sound of the word "bathe"?
/ð/
What is the final sound of the word "ring"?
/ŋ/
What is the first sound of the word "unlucky"?
/ə/
What is the first sound of the word "herb"?
/ɝ/
What is the middle sound of the word "hit"?
/ɪ/
What is the final sound of the word "quiche"?
/ʃ/
What is the first sound of the word "sugar"?
/ʃ/
What is the final sound of the word "camouflage"?
/ʒ/
What is the first sound of the word "giraffe"?
/ʤ/
What is the final sound of the word "switch"?
/ʧ/
What is the first sound of the word "three"?
/θ/
What syllable is stressed in the word "Europe"?
1
What syllable is stressed in the word "kumquat"?
1
What syllable is stressed in the word "computer"?
2
What syllable is stressed in the word "recording"?
2
How many sounds are in the word "teeth"?
3
What syllable is stressed in the word "European"?
3
What syllable is stressed in the word "chandelier"?
3
How many phonemes are in the word "fleet"?
4
How many phonemes are in the word "reached"?
4
How many phonemes are in the word "churning"?
5
How many sounds are in the word "judges"?
5
How many sounds are in the word "screech"?
5
How many sounds are in the word "stopped"?
5
How many phonemes are in the word "trustee"?
6
How many sounds are in the word "collapse"?
6
How many sounds are in the word "crutches"?
6
A pair of letters that represent a single speech sound is referred to as a (n): A) digraph B) allograph C) phoneme D) onset E) diphthong
A
A printed letter is called a/n: A) grapheme B) morpheme C) allophone D) phoneme
A
Select the words that begin with a lateral. A) lull B) one C) rob D) bar E) nut
A
The phoneme /ə˞/ would be used when transcribing A) letter B) irk C) early D) rope E) b and c only
A
Which of the following are minimal pairs? A) laughed/left B) bath/bathe C) work/fork D) ring/rink
A
Which of the following is an open syllable? A) through B) papers C) black D) drink E) whine
A
Which word is a minimal pair of "flew"? A) blue B) crew C) flown D) fled
A
Select the words that begin with a labiodental consonant. A) fat B) vat C) chat D) that E) cat
A, B
Select the words that contain a back vowel. A) coop B) good C) cop D) maid E) weep
A, B, C
Select the words that begin with an approximant. A) run B) we C) one D) you
A, B, C, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 11 (a nasal is syllabic at then end of a word when it occurs immediately after an obstruent)? A) prism B) sudden C) atom D) rhythm
A, B, C, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 12 (the lateral approximant is syllabic at the end of a word when immediately after another consonant)? A) little B) camel C) label D) apple
A, B, C, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 19 (the lateral approximant is velarized when after a vowel or before a consonant at the end of the word)? A) pale B) false C) bowl D) wealth E) leap F) lamb
A, B, C, D
Select the words that begin with an alveolar consonant. A) dip B) lip C) tip D) nip E) zip F) sip
A, B, C, D, E, F
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 14 (alveolar consonants become dentals before dental consonants)? A) width B) meet them C) filth D) tell Thomas E) something F) one thing G) anthem
A, B, C, F, G
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 8 (stops are unexploded when they occur before another stop)? A) fact B) stopped C) hated D) bagged E) axe F) gift
A, B, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 3 (categorically voiced obstruents are only partially voiced when utterance final or before a voiceless sound)? A) bathe B) pays C) tugboat D) math E) mad cow F) leave G) fuzz H) sag
A, B, E, F, G, H
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 5 (voiceless stops are unaspirated after /s/)? A) school B) sphere C) speak D) stream
A, C, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 10 (/t/ is replaced by a glottal stop when it occurs before an alveolar nasal in the same word)? A) fatten B) atom C) kitten D) sudden E) satin F) nothing
A, C, E
Select the words that end with a fricative. A) rave B) bang C) breathe D) ray E) rose F) race G) bush H) real I) wreath J) rough K) bring
A, C, E, F, G, I, J
Which of the following pairs of words are NOT minimal pairs. (Choose all that apply) A) slice, nice B) pirate, pilot C) clasp, grasp D) journal, gerbil E) learn, turn F) respire, perspire G) sun, son H) spite, spot I) food, feud J) one, sun
A, C, F, G, I
Select the words that begin with a dental consonant. A) thigh B) shy C) high D) thy E) pie F) guy
A, D
Select the words that contain a low vowel. A) wad B) weed C) rude D) lad E) load
A, D
Select the words that end with an affricate. A) much B) ooze C) back D) edge
A, D
Select the words that begin with a bilabial consonant. A) pet B) set C) let D) bet E) met F) net
A, D, E
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 7 (approximants are partially voiceless when they occur after initial voiceless stops)? A) putrid B) phrase C) three D) cry E) queen F) dwindle
A, D, E
A consonant cluster can be found in the word A) shot B) stern C) rough D) cone E) none of the above
B
In English, the time between the release of an initial stop and the beginning of the vowel A) is longer for English voiced stops than voiceless stops. B) is shorter for English voiced stops than voiceless stops. C) is not visible on a spectrogram. D) is not measurably different for voiced and voiceless stops
B
Which word is a minimal pair of "drips"? A) dips B) drapes C) traps D) rips
B
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 2 (voiceless stops are aspirated when syllable initial)? A) three B) Thomas C) coax D) play E) phase F) quite
B, C, D
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 15 (alveolar stops are reduced or omitted when between two consonants)? A) osprey B) best friend C) handcuffs D) correctness E) past participle F) basketball
B, C, D, E
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 4 (categorically voiced stops and affricates are voiceless when in syllable initial position, except when preceded by a voiced sound)? A) nail biter B) trap door C) gym D) downtown E) beach F) three dogs
B, C, D, E
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 16 (a homorganic voiceless stop may occur after a nasal and before a voiceless fricative)? A) pans B) once C) warmth D) tenth E) fence F) currency
B, C, D, E, F
Select the words that end with a stop. A) pill B) lip C) crab D) lit E) dog F) hide G) graph H) laugh I) back
B, C, D, E, F, I
Which of the following are examples of words that would undergo the rule described in Statement 13 (alveolar stops become voiced taps when they occur between two vowels, the second of which is unstressed)? A) ideal B) writing C) batter D) nothing E) attack F) madder
B, C, F
Select the words that contain a front vowel. A) put B) gate C) caught D) kit E) cat
B, D, E
Select the words in which the consonant in the middle is voiced. A) tracking B) leisure C) massive D) robber E) stomach F) mother G) razor
B, D, E, F, G
Select the words that contain a round vowel. A) him B) us C) who D) but E) me
C
The adjective used to describe production of English sounds found in the region of the soft palate is A) palatal B) labial C) velar D) alveolar E) glottal
C
Which of the following contains no bound morphemes? A) readily B) swims C) calendar D) personalize E) talked
C
Which of the following is a cue for distinction between final voiced and voiceless stops? A) Voiceless stops are released, but voiced stops are not. B) The vowel before voiced stops is shorter than before voiceless C) The vowel before voiced stops is longer than before voiceless. D) Voiced stops are released, but voiceless stops are not.
C
Which of the following items share an allograph pair? A) city, chord B) omelet, ostrich C) gem, joke D) pneumatic, pepper E) none of the above
C
How many graphemes are in the word "rehashed"? A) 2 B) 3 C) 7 D) 8 E) none of the above
D
Of the following, which is the most significant difference between English initial /p/ and /b/? A) placement B) active articulator C) voicing D) aspiration
D
Which is true about the difference in vowel length in a pair of words like <cap> and <cab> in English? A) The only difference is in consonant closure, not vowel length. B) There is no significant difference in vowel length or consonant closure. C) A word with a longer vowel is twice as long as a whole. D) A word with a longer vowel has a proportionally shorter consonant closure (and thus the words are about the same length).
D
Which is true of the word "clings"? A) it does not contain a rhyme B) it does not contain an onset C) it does not contain a coda D) it is a closed syllable E) none of the above
D
Which of the following are minimal pairs? A) watched/watches B) corps/corpse C) bird/bride D) surf/serve
D
Which of the following contains no diphthong of any kind in its transcription? A) poisonous B) powderpuff C) baseball D) khaki E) pinecone
D
Which of the following words has two morphemes? A) immeasurable B) crocodile C) preoperative D) alligators E) none of the above
D
Select the words that begin with a velar consonant A) hot B) knot C) pot D) cot E) got F) lot
D, E
An example of a digraph can be found in the following A) phlegm B) soon C) bother D) shake E) all of the above
E
Select the words that begin with a post alveolar consonant. A) thigh B) sigh C) lie D) tie E) shy
E
The IPA A) represents the printed letters of a language B) is a particular type of Unicode font C) is another name for the Roman alphabet D) follows English spelling conventions E) none of the above
E
The study of phonetics makes it possible to A) combine words into meaningful units for production of language B) transcribe the speech sounds of any language C) transcribe dialectal differences among speakers D) spell words more easily E) B and C only
E
Which of the following places of articulation do not directly involve the use of the tongue as a primary articulator? A) velar B) interdental C) palatal D) alveolar E) labial
E
T/F: English spelling has a one to one correspondence between sounds and symbols.
False
T/F: If 2 transcribers hear the same word, they will always transcribe it in exactly the same way.
False
T/F: The words "do" and "go" are a minimal pair.
False
T/F: The IPA has a one to one correspondence between sounds and symbols.
True
T/F: The IPA is more effective than English in transcribing written speech.
True
T/F: The words "court" and "short" are a minimal pair.
True
T/F: There are sometimes variations in how a word can be transcribed.
True
