VU Midterm Past Papers
92 solved midterm past paper MCQs for ENG507 (Phonetics and Phonology) at Virtual University, each with the correct answer marked. Use them to learn the VU question style and test your recall. An independent study tool — not affiliated with VU.
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Q1. another name for phonemic transcription is
Q2. noticeable event accruing at regular intervals
Q3. /3/ and /a/ are examples of vowel
Q4. lenis refers to a sound made with a relatively.......... Muscular effort.
Q5. the velaric airstream mechanism involves an air flame produced by a movement of the back of tongue against the
Q6. A vowel may take one out of three forms: stressed, unstressed and
Q7. The 'strong' form is the result of a word being
Q8. Noticeable event occurring at regular intervals
Q9. /e:/ and /a:/ are examples of vowel
Q10. How many sub types does phonology have?
Q11. The velaric airstream mechanism involves an air stream produced by a movement of the back of tongue against the
Q12. In IPA small symbols superimposed on segments are called
Q13. Lax sounds are produced with _________ muscular effort.
Q14. Optimality theory has stemmed from _________ phonology.
Q15. Human speech production is studied under the branch of phonetics.
Q16. Phonemic transcription is enclosed in slashes or oblique lines.
Q17. Fricatives are also known as
Q18. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound.
Q19. In typical tone languages linguistic function of phoneme is to change meaning of word.
Q20. /m/ /d/ fall under the category of
Q21. Which word used in long vowels?
Q22. When a sound is not primarily articulated and some other sound is added to it known as
Q23. Intonation refers (very) simply to the variations in the pitch of a speaker's voice.
Q24. In order to describe intonation, we need to analyze the role of a 'stressed syllable'.
Q25. The term 'stop' is used in the phonetic classification of consonant sounds on the basis of their manner of articulation.
Q26. The North wind and the sun is a folktale taken from
Q27. The glottis is defined as the space between
Q28. In English /p t k/ at the beginning of a syllable are
Q29. /b/ /d/ fall under the category of
Q30. The _____ component provides a detailed analysis and description of speech sounds with particular emphasis on articulatory phonetics.
Q31. The ______ component examines the internal structure of simplex and complex word forms.
Q32. In ______ words are arranged into a certain order.
Q33. In ____, beginnings and endings of the words are changed to adjust the meaning.
Q34. Through ____ , the meaning itself can be affected by the arrangement of words.
Q35. The branch of linguistics in which by the knowledge of the speaker about what the hearer will understand is _____.
Q36. Sets of phonemes and sound patterns are dynamic; as in ______ speech.
Q37. Sets of phonemes and sound patterns are ______ as in isolation within a human language.
Q38. Human sounds are divided into ___ broad categories.
Q39. A consonant is a speech sound in which air is at least ______ blocked.
Q40. ______ is a sound in which there is no obstruction found and the air passes through the cavity freely.
Q41. A ________ is classified in terms of the places and manners of articulation and voicing
Q42. A vowel is classified in terms of the position of tongue, the part of tongue and ____.
Q43. Vowels are further classified into two terms; pure vowels and ______.
Q44. Pure vowels are known as_______.
Q45. The vowel /i/ is a vowel
Q46. Speech is perceived as a sequence of ______ in time.
Q47. In the American structuralist tradition, ______ degrees of stress are usually distinguished.
Q48. Intonation refers to the ______ in the pitch of a speaker's voice.
Q49. In Mandarin (Chinese), /ma/ said with high pitch means ______.
Q50. Vowels tend to be ______ in the stressed syllables.
Q51. The idea of cardinal vowels was given by ______.
Q52. In the articulation of /u/ sound, the tongue is at ______ position.
Q53. Citation speech is the one where word is in its ______ form.
Q54. In typical 'tone' languages, the linguistic function of ______ is to change the meaning of a word.
Q55. Lax sounds are produced with ______ muscular effort and movement.
Q56. The number of vowel sounds in English is ______.
Q57. The terms ______ are specifically used in the phonetic classification of consonantal sounds on the basis of their manners of articulation.
Q58. Lexical stress is a term used in phonetics to refer to the degree of force used in producing a ______.
Q59. Diphthong is a single vowel consisting of the features of ______.
Q60. The term rhotic is used to describe some varieties of English pronunciation in which the phoneme ______ is found in all its phonological contexts.
Q61. In order to describe intonation, we need to analyze the role of a ______.
Q62. The focus of linguistic phonetic description is the phonetics of the _______.
Q63. Which of the following keyboard keys will be useful to paste the copied or 'print screen' image on a word document?
Q64. Which part of the tongue does the term 'laminal' represent?
Q65. Harmonics are the multiple integers of the ______ which are basically the result of vocal fold vibration.
Q66. Which of the following syllabic patterns is considered universal (as it exists in all languages of the world)?
Q67. In order to have the spectral make-up of the vowels, we need to take the formant values (for first formant/s).
Q68. Code switching mainly has ___ types.
Q69. Which of the following languages allows CV syllable pattern only?
Q70. English is a compulsory language from class VI to BA in all schools, the exception being Sindh and ______.
Q71. The sentence, 'She is very nice. Hai na?' is an example of ______.
Q72. According to planning commission, Government of Pakistan, (2011), Lahore's population is currently about ___ million.
Q73. Which of the following is the safest way for pitch measurement?
Q74. In the production of a plosive like [p], which of the following is not a sub-task?
Q75. In order to name your sound file, you have to click on which of the following buttons?
Q76. The phenomenon in which adjacent sounds influence the sounds in the neighborhood is termed as ______.
Q77. The be taken from the _ of a sound.
Q78. Harmonics are basically the result of the _______ vibration.
Q79. In recording on Praat, if you are too loud to go into the red in the volume bar, you will end up with ____
Q80. When measuring pitch manually, one should click in the middle of the ___.
Q81. In the production of [p] sound, which of the following tasks occupies the top node?
Q82. A word that contains one syllable only is called __
Q83. Phonetics is quite diverse and complex particularly when it comes to the phonetics of __
Q84. When confirming the pitch measurements, one should see the ________ peak of the spectral slice.
Q85. In addition to create a voiceless bilabial (i.e. [p]), the glottis needs to be ___.
Q86. Which of the following is a set of symbols and diacritics that have been officially approved by International Phonetic Association?
Q87. Select the correct option: with some variations
Q88. Pitch measurement can be confirmed by looking at the ______.
Q89. In a plosive like [p], which of the following is not a sub-task?
Q90. Which keyboard command is used to remove an unnecessary text-grid boundary on Praat?
Q91. The blank cells on the IPA chart indicate the combinations of categories that are ___
Q92. The phenomenon of assimilation is particularly studied in the ____.