Phonetics and Phonology Quiz

Test your understanding of phonetics and phonology with these questions covering sound production, perception, and language-specific features.

#1

Which term refers to the study of the sounds used in speech?

Morphology
Syntax
Phonetics
Semantics
3 answered
#2

Which of the following is NOT a place of articulation?

Bilabial
Dental
Velar
Lateral
2 answered
#3

What is the term for the study of how sounds are produced?

Phonology
Phonetics
Syntax
Semantics
2 answered
#4

What is the term for a sound produced with a complete or partial closure in the vocal tract?

Vowel
Consonant
Diphthong
Syllable
2 answered
#5

What is the term for the study of sound systems in languages?

Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
2 answered
#6

What is the study of how sounds function within a particular language?

Phonetics
Phonology
Syntax
Morphology
2 answered
#7

Which of the following terms describes the perception of speech sounds by the ear and the brain?

Phonetics
Phonology
Auditory Phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics
2 answered
#8

What is the term for the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning in a language?

Phoneme
Morpheme
Allophone
Grapheme
2 answered
#9

Which of the following is a suprasegmental feature of speech?

Place of articulation
Tone
Voicing
Manner of articulation
2 answered
#10

Which of the following describes the rhythm and intonation of speech?

Tone
Pitch
Stress
Prosody
2 answered
#11

In phonology, what is an allophone?

A type of consonant sound
A type of vowel sound
A variant of a phoneme
A syllabic consonant
2 answered
#12

What is the term for the modification of sounds by the influence of neighboring sounds?

Assimilation
Dissimilation
Elision
Epenthesis
2 answered
#13

What is the term for the process of combining two vowels into a single syllable?

Assimilation
Diphthongization
Elision
Vowel reduction
2 answered
#14

Which of the following terms describes the change in vowel quality within a single syllable?

Monophthongization
Diphthongization
Vowel reduction
Vowel harmony
2 answered

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