chapter 6 online quiz

Question 1

english is considered to be a ______ -timed language

Answer 1

stress

Question 2

during production of a vowel, if the tongue body is moved toward the center of the mouth (but not so far as to be a different vowel), the vowel is said to have been

Answer 2

centralized

Question 3

stress used to distinguish among noun/verb word pairs is sometimes called

Answer 3

lexical stress

Question 4

which of the following is achieved by pauses

Answer 4

marks syntactic boundaries

indicates hesitations for utterance planning or word retrieval
increases listener’s sense of anticipation

Question 5

when speakers use a faster than normal rate of speech, what usually happens to the articulators

Answer 5

they tend to undershoot the target

Question 6

when the closure portion of a stop is not complete, the resulting production may be perceived as being

Answer 6

frictionalized

Question 7

which of the following consonants would NOT likely serve a syllabic function in english?

Answer 7

/g/

Question 8

the english utterance /ju wcnt It tudeI ^/

Answer 8

a question

Question 9

a sound that has greater sonority can also be said to be ________ than sounds with lesser sonority

Answer 9

relatively louder

Question 10

which of the following sounds could NEVER constitute he coda of a syllable

Answer 10

/l/

Question 11

nasalization of the vowel is more likely in which of the following words

Answer 11

/kaen/

Question 12

which of the following words contains a voiced, unreleased, velar stop

Answer 12

/r^g’/

Question 13

the place of articulation for the /k/ in keep would be exactly the same as the place of articulation for the /k/ in coop

Answer 13

false

Question 14

narrow phonetic transcription does NOT involve the use of diacritic marks

Answer 14

false

Question 15

the transcription /***/ contains 3 unintelligible syllables

Answer 15

true

Question 16

listeners use pitch declination to help identify boundaries between syntactic units

Answer 16

true

Question 17

there is a universal agreement about how to transcribe prosodic features of speech

Answer 17

false

Question 18

coarticulation is one way to account for differences in production by individual speakers across different contexts

Answer 18

true

Question 19

when a speech sound loses its /r/ coloring, it is said to have been rhotacized

Answer 19

false

Question 20

tone is a phonemic feature of english

Answer 20

false

Question 21

checked juncture diacritics indicate the speaker wants to continue speaking

Answer 21

true

Question 22

a velarized /l/ is a normal production for many speakers when the /l/ occurs in word-final position

Answer 22

true

Question 23

words CANNOT have more than one primary stressed syllable

Answer 23

false

Question 24

new information is often given additional stress in an utterance

Answer 24

true