Choose the correct answer

1. Unrounded vowels are produced when the lips are …………….. 
A. more or less rounded
B. spread or neutral
C. both a&b
D. neither a nor b

2. Which criteria CANNOT be used to distinguish consonants in English? 
A. Voicing
B. Manner of articulation
C. Lip rounding
D. a&b

3. ………………are mid vowels, produced when the raised part of the tongue is half-way between its high and low position. 
A. / e, з:/
B. /e, i:/
C. /æ, ə/
D. all are correct

4. Which of the followings contains a long vowel? 
A. girl
B. cook
C. home
D. some


5. Bilabial sounds are made……………. 
A. with two lips
B. with the lower lip and upper front teeth
C. with the upper lip and the teeth
D. none is correct

6. Which of the following groups of sounds differs in place of articulation? 
A. /f,v,b/
B. /t,d,l/
C. /g,k, ŋ/
D. /p, m, w/

7. Which of the following pairs is different in voicing? 
A. /v,d/
B. /p,k/
C. /f,m/
D. /a,o/

8. Voiceless sound CANNOT be found in…………….. 
A. Approximant consonants
B. Stop consonants
C. Fricative consonants
D. All of the

9. The two words that are identical in every way except for one phoneme that occurs in the same place are called……………. 
A. minimal pairs
B. complementary distribution
C. segments
D. allophones

10. Which branch of phonetics deals with the auditory aspects of speech sounds? 
A. Articularory phonetics
B. Acoustic phonetics
C. Auditory phonetics
D. All of them