There are 53 MCQs of Phonetics and Phonology to make learner clear about the topics like Place and manners of articulation, syllables et-cetera

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Name: Suhail Jamali
Roll no: 2k16/EngE/120
Class: BS English part (III) Linguistics
Institute/Dept: Institute of English Literature & Language, University of Sindh jamshoro.
MCQs of Phonetics &
Phonology.
(1) When fricatives are produced air escapes through a narrow passage &
makes a_____sound
a) Vistle c) Musical
b) Hissing d) N.O.T
(2) Fricatives are_____where as plosives aren’t______
a) Sounds c) Continuants
b) Consonant d) Vowel
(3) Affricates are begin as_____&end as______
a) Fricative,Plosive c) Nasal,fortis
b) Forti,Nasal d) Plosive,Fricatives
(4) Which of the following is an affricate?
a) /b/ c) /tf/
b) /m/ d) N.O.T
(5) Plosives are also called______
a) Fricatives c) Dental
b) Nasal d) Stops
(6) Homorganics are_______

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a) Sounds that produced with same organ c) sound with same length
b) Vowel sounds d) A.O.T
(7) Sounds like ‘sh’ & /3/ produced with_______
a) Front teeth c) Both lips
b) Alveolar ridge & Tongue blade d) N.O.T
(8) We only count____&_____as Affricate phonemes
a) /dr/, /fv/ c) /tf/, /dz/
b) /ts/, /j/ d) N.O.T
(9) Pronunciation of word Church is composed of____phonemes
a) 5 c) 8
b) 2 d) 3
(10) ____fricatives are articulated with more force than that of_____
a) Lenis, fortis c) Lenis, voived
b) Fortis, Voiceless d) Fortis, Lenis
(11) Lenis fricatives have voicing in inittial & final when they occur
between____sounds
a) Voiced c) Voiceless
b) B.O.T d) N.O.T
(12) In English, replacing one phoneme with another causes______
a) No change c) Pronunciation & meaning change
b) Only pronunciation change d) N.O.T
(13)When we produce/tf/ & /dz/ affricates our lips are______
a) Closed c) Rounded
b) Come together d) A.O.T

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(14)Fortis sounds are usually articulated with_____glottis?
a) Open c) Open and closed
b) Open & closed d) N.O.T
(15) The word ‘nature’ can phonetically trancribed with glottalisation as
______
a) /neI?tfa/ c) /neItfa?
b) /naetf/ d) A.O.T
(16) The plosive, Fricatives and Affricatices combinely give us how many
consonants?
a) Seventeen c) Nineteen
b) Ten d) Fifteen
(17) The number of nasal consonants in English______
a) Seven c) Nine
b)Three b) Eleven
(18) ‘How sounds are produced’ is comes under umbrella of_____
a) Plaace of articulation c)B.O.T
b) Manner of articulaton d)N.O.T
(19) Stops are also called______
a) Nasal c) Plosive
b) Fricative d)A & B
(20) When Nasal sounds produced____is completely closed
a) Nasal cavity c) Glottis
b) Oral cavity d) A.O.T
(21)____Is___produced when Liquids are made
a) Friction, largely c) Not, Friction

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b) Friction, hardly d) Friction, Not
(22) During the productionof_____sounds, the airstream escaping around on
the sides of tongue
a) Nasal c) Affricates
b) Fricatives d) Lateral
(23)_____sounds are produced when tongue is curled back
a) Retroflex c) Nasal
b) Lateral d) stops
(24)____ are considered as phonological building blocks of words
a) Phoneme c) Syllable
b) Morpheme d) A.O.T
(25) The word that contain many syllables are said to be a_____
a) Mono-syllable c) Di-syllable
b) Poly-syllable d) Tri-syllable
(26) Semi-vowels are also called_____
a) Vowels c) Semi-consonants
b) Consonants d) Approximant
(27) Fortis production needs_____ forcethan that of lenis
a) Less c) More
b) Some d) N.O.T
(28) The study of the possible phoneme combinations of a labnguage is
called___
a) Phoneme c) Morpheme
b) Phone d) Phonotactics
(29) No word begins with more than____ consonants

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a) Two c) Four
b) Three d) Six
(30) No current word ends with more than____consonants
a) Two c) Six
b) Four d) Three
(31) Dark & Clear L are the ____of phonemeL in complementry distribution
a) Phones c) phonemes
b) Allophone d) Allomorph
(32) If the first syllable of the word in question begins with a vowel, the initial
symbol has a____onset
a) Pre-initial c) Post-initial
b) Zero d) N.O.T
(33) When we have two or more consonants we call them____
a) Consonant cluster c) Consonantplus cluster
b) Cluster d) Vowel plus
(34)______soundsare produced with both lips
a) Labio-dental c) Alveolar
b) Bilabial d) Palato-alveolar
(35) Which of the following pair is dental sounds?
a) P, B c) TH, D
b) M,V d) A.O.T
(36) From /f/ and /v/____is a voiced labio-dental
a) /f/ c) Both
b) /v/ d) N.o.t

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(37)_____Placeof articulation has only one consonant sound
a) Dental c) Post-alveolar
b) Alveolar d) Palatal
(38) Pharynx is divided into______Parts
a) 5 c) 6
b) 9 d) 2
(39) Spacebetween vocal cords known as______
a) Vocal space c) Glottis
b) Nasal cavity d) N.O.T
(40) There are____shortvowels in English
a) 9 c) 8
b) 6 d) 5
(41) Which of the of following short vowel is used in word ‘man’?
a) /a/ c) /ae/
b) /I/ d) /e/
(42) _____shortvowel is called cup sound
a) /ae/ c) /e/
b) / / / d) /I/
(43) The number of long vowels in English is_____
a) 6 c) 5
b) 8 d) 9
(44) How long vowels are recognised?
a) By dicritic c) B.O.T
b) By length mark d) N.O.T

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(45) Diphthongs are produced by the combination of _____sounds
a) One vowel c) Three vowel
b) Many vowel d) Two vowel
(46) In the word ‘beard’ which diphthong is used?
a) /ea/ c) /Ia/
b) /ua/ d) /ei/
(47) Triphthongs are composed of_____
a) Five vowel c) three vowel
b) Two vowel d) N.O.T
(48) The word ‘player’ contains of_____syllable
a) 1 c) 3
b) 2 d) 4
(49) During the productionof /I/ our lips are_____
a) Rounded c) Neutral
b) Spread d) A.O.T
(50) The study of sound patterns comes under umbrella of_____
a) Phonetics c) Morphology
b) Semantics d) N.O.T
(51) Auditory phonetics is the study of____
a) How sounds are heard c) Production of sound
b) Asimilation d) N.O.T
(52) Exception of Articulatory and Auditory phonetics_____is the 3rd type of
phonetics

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a) Morphology c) production
b) Accoustic d) A.O.T
Answer Key
(1) B (2) C (3) D (4) C (5) D (6) A (7) B (8) C (9) D (10) D
(11) A (12) C (13) C (14) A (15) A (16) A (17) A (18) B (19) C (20) B
(21) D (22) D (23) A (24) C (25) B (26) D (27) C (28) D (29) B (30) B
(31) B (32) B (33) A (34) B (35) C (36) B (37) D (38) D (39) C (40) B
(41) C (42) B (43) C (44) B (45) D (46) C (47) C (48) B (49) B (50) D
(51) A (52) B