General Knowledge Quiz 16Raghu UnnamMarch 7, 2025General knowledge, General Knowledge Test Welcome to your General Knowledge Quiz 16 What is phonetics? The study of sentence structure The study of speech sounds The study of word meanings The study of language history None How many vowel sounds are there in English? 5 12 26 8 None What are the three main branches of phonetics? Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Lexical, Structural, and Semantic Morphological, Phonemic, and Pragmatic Stress, Intonation, and Rhythm None What is articulatory phonetics concerned with? How sounds are perceived How sounds are produced How sounds travel through the air The history of phonemes None Which part of the mouth is used to produce bilabial sounds? Lips Tongue Teeth Palate None Which of the following is a voiced consonant? /p/ /t/ /b/ /k/ None Which of the following is a voiceless sound? /b/ /g/ /s/ /d/ None What is the place of articulation for the sound /t/? Labiodental Alveolar Glottal Velar None Which of the following is an example of a diphthong? /i/ /aɪ/ /u/ /e/ None What is a minimal pair? Two words that have opposite meanings Two words that differ by only one sound Two words that are spelled the same Two words that have the same pronunciation None Which term refers to the rhythm and melody of speech? Stress Intonation Articulation Phoneme None Which phonetic transcription represents the word "think"? /θɪŋk/ /tɪŋk/ /sɪŋk/ /ðɪŋk/ None What is a nasal sound? A sound made with tongue movement A sound produced through the nose A sound with vocal cord vibration A sound with lip movement None Which of the following words contains a schwa /ə/? Banana Train Sheep Bottle None Which of the following sounds is a fricative? /p/ /b/ /s/ /m/ None What is morphology? The study of word formation The study of sentence structure The study of speech sounds The study of language history None Which of the following is the smallest unit of meaning? Phoneme Morpheme Syllable Word None What is an example of a free morpheme? -ing Dog -ed un- None Which of the following is a bound morpheme? Run Happy -s Tree None What type of morpheme is the word "unhappiness" made of? One free morpheme and two bound morphemes Only free morphemes Only bound morphemes One phoneme and two syllables None What type of morpheme is "re-" in "redo"? Suffix Prefix Inflectional Free None What is an inflectional morpheme? A morpheme that changes the meaning of a word A morpheme that changes tense, number, or degree A morpheme that creates a new word A morpheme that replaces another word None Which of the following is an example of a derivational morpheme? -s (plural) -ing -ly -ed None How many morphemes are in the word "unhappily"? 1 2 3 4 None Which morpheme is inflectional in the word "walking"? Walk -ing -ed -ly None Which of the following words contains two morphemes? Elephant Running Desk Yellow None What is compounding in morphology? Combining two words to create a new word Changing a word’s tense Adding a suffix to a word Deleting letters from a word None Which of the following is an example of a compound word? Teacher Playground Quickly Happiness None What is a root morpheme? The core meaning of a word A prefix added to a word A word that cannot stand alone A morpheme that only occurs in past tense None Which of the following best describes an affix? A word with two syllables A morpheme added to a root A new word created from an old word A single morpheme that stands alone None 1 out of 6 Time's upTime is Up! Post Views: 128
