Pronunciación de la Lengua Inglesa

Two sounds are in complementary distribution if they appear. in the same context. in mutually exclusive contexts. in a minimal pair. next to each other.

The tongue, the lips and the soft palate are. primary articulators. passive articulators. secondary articulators. active articulators.

A glottal stop is produced with...... vocal folds. completely closed. open. nearly together. vibrating.

Which of the following groups does not contain a fricative sound?. [s], [z],[l], [n]. [t], [h], [n], [æ]. [dʒ], [w], [ə], [Õ]. [tS], [j], [r], [l].

English vowels [ɒ] and [a:] are. half-open and rounded. back and open. open and long. back and rounded.

Obstruents include. plosives, fricatives and approximants. plosives, fricatives and affricates. fricatives, approximants and nasals. fricatives, affricates and laterals.

Which of the following words contains a devoiced [r] ([r]). car. bride. tribe. rose.

A syllable rhyme includes. the nucleus and the coda. the onset, the nucleus and the coda. the onset and the nucleus. the onset and the coda.

Which of the following compounds is stressed on the first word. Crystal Palace. Regent's Park. Church Street. Euston Road.

According to the British School of intonational analysis, the tail includes. the unaccented syllables after the nucleus (if any). the nucleus and following unaccented syllables (if any). the unaccented syllables preceding the nucleus (if any). the unaccented syllables before the first accent (if any).

Implosive sounds are produced with a .... airstream mechanism and an ..... airflow. glottalic/ingressive. velaric/ingressive. pulmonic/egressive. glottalic/egressive.

The slower the vocal fold vibration. the louder the sound. the higher the sound. the softer the sound. the lower the sound.

Fricatives are produced with …… of the articulators. a narrow approximation. an open approximation. a partial closure. complete closure.

Which are the common features of English sounds [ʒ] and [r]?. fricative and voiced. alveolar and approximant. palatal and taр. post-alveolar and voiced.

Which of the following sets of sounds does not contain a back vowel?. [a:], [ǝ], [æ], [3:]. [3:], [u:], [a:], [i:]. [ʌ], [ɪ], [e], [ɜː]. [ɜː], [ɔː], [ʊ], [æ].

Which of the following words does not contain an aspirated plosive?. cash. pencil. appear. story.

Which of the following consonants cannot appear at syllable coda position in English?. [h]. [ŋ]. [ð]. [v].

In which of the following sequences the [t] at the end of the word best cannot be elided. best-seller. best house. best university. best book.

Where is the main accent located in the following sentence when produced in a neutral way? Send it to her. Send. it. to. her.

A minimal pair consists of ... two different sounds. two words differing in only one sound. two words with the same number of letters. two sounds with the same characteristics.

Which of the following words contains a devoiced lateral approximant ([I])?. lamb. still. plane. lateral.

Which of the following sets of sounds is produced with a velaric ingressive airstream?. clicks. ejectives. plosives. implosives.

Which features are common to the following vocalic sounds [i: ӕ e]?. central and unrounded. close and rounded. open and unrounded. front and unrounded.

A stressed syllable is. lexically determined and rhythmically prominent. rhythmically and intonationally prominent. determined at the sentence level. lexically determined and intonationally prominent.

In which contexts does English dark [ł] occur?. before vowels and [j]. after consonants (except for [j]) or after a pause. before consonants (except for [j]) or before a pause. between consonants and before [j].

Which of the following compounds is stressed on the first word?. ham sandwich. apple pie. orange juice. mushroom soup.

Tonality studies. the distribution of accents within a sentence. the division of a text into intonation units. the location of the main accent in a word group. the inventory of tonal units in a language.

Two allophones of one phoneme are in free variation if they appear... in mutually exclusive contexts. in the same context. in final position. across words.

A velic closure is used to produce .. velar sounds. vocalic sounds. nasal sounds. oral sounds.

Which of the following words contains an aspirated [p]?. spoon. polite. pen. spray.

Which are the common features of English sounds [ʃ] and [f]?. fricative and voiceless. fricative and palatal. palatal and voiceless. alveolar and voiced.

Which feature is responsible for the distinction between [3:] and [e]?. lip rounding. tongue height (open/close). tongue position (front/back). length.

hich is the weak form of the word "at"?. [ət]. [æt]. [at]. [ɑt].

In which contexts does English clear [I] occur?. before vowels and [j]. after consonants (except for [j]) or after a pause. before consonants (except for [j]) or before a pause. between consonants and before [j].

A syllable coda contains... the consonant(s) before the nucleus. the vowel. the vowel and the following consonant(s). the consonant(s) after the nucleus.

Which is the location of the main accent in a neutral reading of the following sentence?. *They hate each other. They *hate each other. They hate *each other. They hate each *other.

The study of the distribution of accents within a sentence is called. tonality. tonicity. tone. pitch range.

In English clear 1 ([[]) and dark 1 ([t)) are two allophones of /1/ that appear. in complementary distribution. in free variation. in the same context. next to each other.

Which of the following groups of consonants only contains post-alveolar sounds?. [ʒ], [r], [l], [tʃ]. [tʃ], [h], [ŋ], [ʒ]. [dʒ], [tʃ], [ʃ], [r]. [ʃ], [j], [r], [ʒ].

English approximants. can be voiced or voiceless. are always voiced. are always voiceless. are devoiced.

Which of the following words contains an aspirated [k]?. task. sky. container. colour.

The....... is/are the only compulsory element of the syllable. coda. onset. nucleus. nucleus and the coda.

A glottal plosive [?] is produced with. completely open vocal folds. completely closed vocal folds. slightly open vocal folds. the vocal folds apart.

hich of the following features in common to vowels [i:] and [u:]. rounded. back. front. close.

In which of the following English words is the [p] sound aspirated?. spy. supper. pot. upmost.

Which of the following [r] sounds should not be devoiced?. crown. train. strange. proud.

Which of the following vowels cannot trigger an instrusive-r?. [u:]. [ɑː]. [ɔː]. [ə].

How is the suffix in the word Japanese classified according to stress?. stress attracting suffix. stress fixing suffix. stress neutral suffix. stress altering suffix.

Which of the following nonsense words could never be an English word according to phonotactic rules?. [skrei]. [glei]. [smrei]. [snei].

Which of the following pronunciations of the sequence send me can never occur in English?. [send mi]. [semb mi]. [sem mi]. [senp mi].

A language that uses pitch movements to trigger differences at the lexical level is called a(n). tone language. intonation language. tonic language. accented language.