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King Abdulaziz University


Department of European Language and Literature

Phonetics 332
First Semester 1431 H / 2010 Final Examination
D . Ayman Habis
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1 - How many stop sound in English language both oral and nasal ?

A – 6
B – 2
C – 8
D – 9

2 – The word (dumb) end with ……………sound .

A – stop
B – fricative
C – nasal
D – affricate


3 – In English language there is ……………

A – 1 trill alveolar
B – 2 trill alveolar
C – 3 trill alveolar
D – 4 trill alveolar



4 – In which word of these the sound made with the tongue front and the hard palate ?

A – yatch
B – judge
C – church
D – guess

5 - What is the name of this sound { } ?

A – esh
B – ash
C – eth
D – theta

6 – What is the name of this symbol {p} ?

A – lowercase p
B – capital P
C –
D –

7- What is the name of this symbol { } ?

A – turned v
B – schwa
C – upsilon
D – reversed v

8 – This symbol {:} to distinguish the …………of vowel .

A – tall
B – high
C – width
D – length


9 – All of these words , lip . zip . dip . end with

A – bilabial stop
B – bilabial fricative
C – alveplar stop
D – alveolar vricative

10 – Phonetics describe the ………… sound .

A – speech
B –
C –
D –

11 – Trachea is also called

A – wind pip
B –
C –
D –

12 – It can be raised to press against the back wall of the pharynx and make ………….closure . so that the air stream can't escape through the nasal cavity .

A – velic
B – velik
C –
D –

13 – The air passages above the larynx are known as

A – vocal tract
B –
C –
D –

14 – In production of consonant the air stream is ………...

A – obstructed
B –
C –
D –

15 – The movement from one vowel to another within a single syllable is …………….

A – diphthong
B –
C –
D –
16 – The respiratory system is pushing air out of the …….

A – lungs
B –
C –
D –


17 – We can't rely in the modern English ………. To represent the sound .

A – spelling
B –
C –
D –


18 – Which sound start with liquid sound

A –
B –
C –
D –


19 – The vowel in {Who} is

A – rounded high back
B – unrounded high front
C –
D –

20 – Sounds produced when the vocal folds are vibrating is …………

A – voiced
B – voiceless
C –
D –


21 – The sound in the end of the word { rough } is

A – labio-dental fricative
B –
C –
D –


22- The vowel in {hat } is

A – high
B – mid
C – low
D –

23 – When vowel come before any nasal stop the vowel will be ………
.
A – nasalized
B –
C –




24 – Another name of dental { , }

A – post dental
B – inter dental
C –
D –

25 – In the vowel …….. , describe the position of tongue in terms high , mid , low .

A – chart
B –
C –
D –

26 – Suprasegmentals are superimposed on ………..

A – vowels
B – words
C – syllables
D –

27- Speech gesture using the lips are called …….. articulation .

A – labial
B –
C –
D –





28 – The pitch patern in a sentence is known as ……….

A – intonation

C –
D –

29- Stress in English language has syntacsitall function to distinguish between noun and ………

A – verb
B – adjective
C – adverb
D –


30- The use of small marks that can be added to symbol to modify it value is known as ……

A – Diacritics
B –
C –
D –

31- The primary articulators that can be cause an obstruction in ………. Language are the lips .

A – few
B – most
C – American
D –





32- Compound noun have ………element and the adjective plus ,noun phrase have stresses on both elements .

A – a single stress on the first
B –
C –
D –

33- …………Tranion is other used to designate a tranion ,That uses a simple set of symbols

A – broad
B – weak
C – narrow
D –

34- Epiglottis is attached to the lower part of the ……….

A – Uvula
B – velum
C – tongue
D –

35- When a word is pronounced in isolation is called …….

A – citation
B –
C –
D –

36- Exception , all word of these words ( race , wreath , breathe , rough , play , ) are fricative .

A – play
B –
C –
D –

37- Many Midwestern speakers and most far western speakers don't distinguish between the vowels in pairs of words such as

A – (cat –cut)
B – (cot-cough )
C –
D –

38- The process in which one sound is changed into another because of influence of neighboring sound is known as

A – Assimilation
B –
C –
D –

39- The back wall of …….. maybe considered to be one of the articulators of the upper surface of the vocal tract

A – larynx
B – pharynx

40- …………and falling can occur in the _________ .

A – raising
B – rising
C – raised
D –
41- ……….. of the tongue touches hard plate to produce a palatal sound .

A – tip
B – front
C – back
D –

42- The difference between {l} in these word (ply) and (lay) is in the first word the sound {l} is

A – voiceless
B – voiced
C –
D –

43- Phoneme are ………..units that form the basis for writing down a language .

A – an abstract
B –
C –
D –

44- The …………. of language is the set of rules that describe the changes in the underlying sounds .

A – phonetics
B – phonology
C –
D –

45- For most people , final stops are …………….. when the next word begins with nasal .

A – unexploded
B – exploded
46- The air pressure that is built up behind the stop closure is released through the nose by lowering of the soft plate (velum) for the nasal consonant and this known nasal ………….
A –plosion
B –
C –
D –

47- Vowels are ……….. before all voiceless consonant than before all voiced consonant

A – longer than
B –
C –
D –

48- The symbol …….. may be used to designate many vowels that have a reduced vowels .


A – { }
B –
C –
D –

49- Ordinary American College dictionaries also provide pronunciation , but the symbols they use are not accordance with the principle of


A – IPA
B – LPD
C –EPD
D –



50- Part of the problem in describing vowels is that there are no distinct…………between one type of the vowel and another

A – boundaries
B –
C –
D –


51- whose acute observation of English dominated British phonetics in the first half of the twentieth century .

A – Daniel Junes
B –
C –
D

52- When you move from one vowel to another , you are changing the ……….. quality of the vowel .

A – auditory
B –
C –
D –

52- The additional vowel …….. is more back and slightly more rounded than {a} .

A – { }
B –
C –
D –


53- Obstruent is a natural class of sounds is refer to

A – fricatives and stops
B –
C –
D –

54- Consonants are ………… when it came at the end of the a phrase .

A –shorter
B – longer
C –
D –

55- Alveolar stops become voiced tap when they occur between two ……………

A – vowels
B – consonant
C –
D –

56- Alveolar stops are reduced or omitted when it come between two ……………..
A – vowels
B – consonant
C –
D –

57- question about folds ( I forget what is it )
58- question about lax and tense ( I forget what is it )
59- Vowels are ………… in syllables closed by a nasal consonant .
A – nasalized
B –
C –
D –

60- There is a ………… form , which occur when the word is stressed .
A – strong
B – weak
C –
D –

61- The last stressed syllable in a phrase often accompanies a …………in the intonation .

A – peak
B –
C –
D –

62- The beginning of new intonation phrase may be marked as
A – ll
B –
C –
D –

63- TOBI standing for what ?
A – Tone and Break Indices
B –
C –
Tranion ( find the errors and correct them ) ?

64- strength

65-crime

66- wishing

67-these

68-hijacking

69- chipping

70- yelling

71-sixteen

72-man

73-wives


Tran the following words?
74- Truth
75- remain
76- sugar
77-chocolate
78- another
79-inexcusable
80-young
81-cream
82-children
83-please

End of the exam
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