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The study of how people use their speech organs to produce speech sounds is of great interest to those working in the area of ______.
A. phonology
B. articulatory phonetics
C. auditory phonetics
D. acoustic phonetics
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We refer to the limited range of sounds as the phonic medium of language and individual sounds within that range as ______.
A. vowels
B. consonants
C. sounds
D. speech sounds
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Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing, which is a feature of ______.
A. all consonants
B. vowels only
C. all consonants and some vowels
D. all vowels and some consonants
单项选择题
Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is ______.
A. auditory
B. acoustic
C. articulatory phonetics
D. none of the above three
单项选择题
In linguistics, ______ is focused on that how a speaker uses his speech organs to articulate the sounds.
A. acoustic phonetics
B. articulatory phonetics
C. auditory phonetics
D. none of the above
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Acoustic phoneticians try to describe the ______ properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues.
A. oral
B. mental
C. physical
D. recorded
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______ phonetics looks at the sounds from the hearer’s point of view and studies how the sounds are perceived by the hearer.
A. Articulatory
B. Auditory
C. Acoustic
D. Oral
单项选择题
If you put a finger in each ear and say "z-z-z-z-z", you can feel the vibrations of the ______.
A. glottis
B. windpipe
C. larynx
D. vocal cords
单项选择题
The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ______ sounds.
A. voiceless
B. voiced
C. vowel
D. consonantal
单项选择题
The IPA came into being towards the end of the ______ century.
A. nineteenth
B. eighteenth
C. seventeenth
D. sixteenth
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English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. in terms of ______.
A. manner of articulation
B. openness of mouth
C. place of articulation
D. voicing
单项选择题
The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced ______, respectively.
A. stops
B. fricatives
C. affricates
D. plosives
单项选择题
The phonetic form of the prefix meaning "not" is phonetically variant; it is [in] be fore a vowel or an alveolar consonant, [im] before a labial consonant, and
before a ______, for example, inoperable
, impossible
, and inconceivable
.
A. velar
B. palatal
C. fricative
D. stop
单项选择题
In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of ______.
A. palatal
B. alveolar
C. bilabial
D. dental
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The initial sound in ______ is a velar stop.
A. tap
B. map
C. gap
D. hap
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The consonant [f] in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features: ______.
A. voiceless, bilabial, stop
B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative
C. voiced, bilabial, stop
D. voiced, labiodental, fricative
单项选择题
The vowel
in English has all the following features except ______.
A. long
B. rounded
C. closed
D. central
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A ______ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.
A. back
B. central
C. front
D. middle
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All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except ______. A.
B.
C.
D.
单项选择题
In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are ______ vowels.
A. unfounded
B. close
C. open
D. rounded
单项选择题
______ are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions.
A. Vowels
B. Consonants
C. Diphthongs
D. Individual vowels
单项选择题
______ aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.
A. Linguistics
B. Phonetics
C. Phonology
D. Articulatory phonetics
单项选择题
A phoneme is an abstract, distinctive and ______ unit.
A. phonetic
B. phonemic
C. phonological
D. phonic
单项选择题
A ______ is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.
A. phoneme
B. phone
C. sound
D. speech
单项选择题
The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ______ of that phoneme.
A. phones
B. sounds
C. phonemes
D. allophones
单项选择题
In English, a phoneme may be represented by two or more allophones. The choice of the allophone is ______.
A. random
B. rule-governed
C. haphazard
D. unpredictable
单项选择题
If two speech sounds are in contrastive distribution, they ______.
A. represent two phonemes
B. are allophones of the same phoneme
C. have exactly the same phonetic features
D. do not appear in the same environment
单项选择题
In English, /p/ and /p^h/ are in ______ distribution.
A. contrastive
B. complementary
C. free
D. none of the above
单项选择题
If similar sounds that occur in the same environments are two distinctive phonemes, they are said to form ______.
A. phonemic contrast
B. phonetic distinction
C. complementary distribution
D. minimal pair
单项选择题
If two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are ______ of the same phoneme.
A. symbols
B. allophones
C. phones
D. signs
单项选择题
A minimal pair can be illustrated by ______.
A. sip/sheep
B. bread/breast
C. same/shame
D. breath/breathe
单项选择题
To form the present tense, 3rd person singular of the verb "teach", we have to add "-es", instead of just "-s" to it. This is required by the ______ of English.
A. assimilation rule
B. sequential rule
C. deletion rule
D. morphological rule
单项选择题
Of the following sound combinations, only ______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.
A. klib
B. bkil
C. ilkb
D. ilbk
单项选择题
When a speech sound changes and becomes more like another sound which follows it, it is said to be ______.
A. nasalized
B. assimilated
C. aspirated
D. voiced
单项选择题
Stress, tone and intonation are called ______ features.
A. segmental
B. vocal
C. speech
D. suprasegmental
单项选择题
The feature that distinguishes "a greenhouse" and "a green house" is ______.
A. tone
B. stress
C. intonation
D. aspiration
单项选择题
A phonological feature of the English ______ is that the stress of the word always falls on the first element, and the second element receives secondary stress.
A. compounds
B. phrases
C. words
D. sentences
单项选择题
A ______ refers to a particular kind of bird, which is not necessarily black.
A. black ’bird
B. ’black bird
C. black bird
D. both B and C

The vowel in English has all the following features except ______.

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The study of how people use their speech organs to produce speech sounds is of great interest to those working in the area of ______.

We refer to the limited range of sounds as the phonic medium of language and individual sounds within that range as ______.

Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing, which is a feature of ______.

Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is ______.

In linguistics, ______ is focused on that how a speaker uses his speech organs to articulate the sounds.

Acoustic phoneticians try to describe the ______ properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues.

______ phonetics looks at the sounds from the hearer’s point of view and studies how the sounds are perceived by the hearer.

If you put a finger in each ear and say "z-z-z-z-z", you can feel the vibrations of the ______.

The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ______ sounds.

The IPA came into being towards the end of the ______ century.

English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. in terms of ______.

The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced ______, respectively.

The phonetic form of the prefix meaning "not" is phonetically variant; it is [in] be fore a vowel or an alveolar consonant, [im] before a labial consonant, and before a ______, for example, inoperable , impossible , and inconceivable .

In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of ______.

The initial sound in ______ is a velar stop.

The consonant [f] in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features: ______.

The vowel in English has all the following features except ______.

A ______ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.

All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except ______. A. B. C. D.

In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are ______ vowels.

______ are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions.

______ aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.

A phoneme is an abstract, distinctive and ______ unit.

A ______ is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ______ of that phoneme.

In English, a phoneme may be represented by two or more allophones. The choice of the allophone is ______.

If two speech sounds are in contrastive distribution, they ______.

In English, /p/ and /ph/ are in ______ distribution.

If similar sounds that occur in the same environments are two distinctive phonemes, they are said to form ______.

If two sounds are in complementary distribution, they are ______ of the same phoneme.

A minimal pair can be illustrated by ______.

To form the present tense, 3rd person singular of the verb "teach", we have to add "-es", instead of just "-s" to it. This is required by the ______ of English.

Of the following sound combinations, only ______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.

When a speech sound changes and becomes more like another sound which follows it, it is said to be ______.

Stress, tone and intonation are called ______ features.

The feature that distinguishes "a greenhouse" and "a green house" is ______.

A phonological feature of the English ______ is that the stress of the word always falls on the first element, and the second element receives secondary stress.

A ______ refers to a particular kind of bird, which is not necessarily black.

The vowel
in English has all the following features except ______.

The phonetic form of the prefix meaning "not" is phonetically variant; it is [in] be fore a vowel or an alveolar consonant, [im] before a labial consonant, and
before a ______, for example, inoperable
, impossible
, and inconceivable
.

The vowel
in English has all the following features except ______.

All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except ______. A.
B.
C.
D.

In English, /p/ and /p^h/ are in ______ distribution.