exams in phonetics

1st exam
Exercise 1:
Answer the following questions briefly and accurately.

Explain the mechanism whereby a velar sound is produced?
When is the glottis open?
What is meant by the supralaryngeal cavities?
Which difference is there between the /s/ and /z/?
What makes the vocal cords vibrate?
Exercise 2:
Circle the words where the /g/ sound is not pronounced
singer, finger, anger, younger, angle
Circle the words which contain a /f/ sound
Thought, rough, follow, right, thigh
Exercise 3:
Describe the following consonants in the words:
thigh, meaning, otherwise, issue, are

Exercise 4:
In a ten line paragraph, state the phases of speech.

Exercise 1:
Complete the following sentences appropriately

When a short vewel is followed by a voiced sound ......... ......... ......... .........
Cardinal vowels are called peripheral vowels because ......... ......... ......... .....
In a vowel production, air ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
The English CV8 can bi diphthongised ......... ......... ......... .........
Cardinal vowels are monophthongal because ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
Long vowels are fully long ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... ........
The higher the tongue, the ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
Cardinal vowels are a point of reference because ......... ......... .........
Front, centre, and back refer to the ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
Auditory phonetics studies ......... ......... ......... ......... ......... .........
Exercise 2:
State the difference between the vowels ain dad, been and bet and plot them in the cardinal vowel diagram.

Exercise 3:
Transcribe the following words:

Leaf, back, bill, between, business, busy, many, friend

Exercise 1:
Answer the following question briefly and accurately

1. What does the aerodynamics of speech refer to?

2. What is the scope of articulatory phonetics?

3. What happens when a voiceless sound follow a short vowel?

4. What does the term quality refer to in the description of vowels?

5. Give three differences between cardinal vowels and English vowels?

6. What causes vocal cords vibrations?

7. Why is [h] produced with the glottis open?

Exercise 2:
Describe the consonants in the word skinflint

Exercise 3:
Transcribe the following words:

Receipt, village, deed, dead, cab, set, sat, be seat, speech

Transcribe the following sentences:

“That’s the man that let his hat in his cab”

“She is very bad in English and French”

Section 1:
Answer the following questions:

1. What is it meant by good speech and bad speech?

2. What is Standard English?

3. What does the term aerodynamics of speech refer to?

4. What is a vibration?

5. What is the state of the glottis for breath?

6. State the difference between a sound, which is speech, and a sound, which is not speech?

7. What is the difference between human speech and animal communication?

Section 2:
Speech is a modification of breathing. comment

Exercise 1:
Complete the following sentences.

The different articulators are called “the so called organs of speech” because ..................................................
An active articulator is .......... while a passive articulator is ...........
While auditory phonetics studies ................ acoustic phonetics studies ...............
When the soft palate is lowered, air ................ .............. ........
A consonant is a sound ................ ................ ................ ............
Friction is ................ ................ ................ ................ ................
In a vowel production, there is no .................... so air ....................
Exercise 2:
Put true or false in front of each sentence. Correct the false ones.

The tongue is an active articulator...........................................
Some languages are good whereas others are bad...........................
All people speak in the same way . ......................................
The source of air that English uses is aggressive ...............................
The aerodynamics of speech refers to the way speech sounds are made in the vocal tract..................................
The vocal folds are wide apart during the production voiced sounds .......................
The absence of a sound wave equals the absence of the hearing mechanism.......................
When the soft palate is raised, air escapes from the nasal cavity ...............................
Friction is produced when two organs of speech are in total contact with each other...................................
Exercise 3:
The simple sentence “I am going home” requires a number of highly complicated processes. Discuss.

Exercise 1:
Answer the following questions briefly:

Describe the directions of air.
What is meant by a regional dialect?
When is the glottis open?
Phonetically a vowel is ................. .................
The quantity of a vowel means ................. .................
Exercise 2:
In a very short paragraph state the phases of speech. Illustrate

Exercise 3:
Transcribe the following passages:

Scientists know there are two basic approaches to prolonging life. One is the elimination of diseases such as cancer, heart and brain attacks that affect older people. The other is the slowing down of the process of growing old, the delaying of the deterioration of the body.

Make up

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