International Phonetic Alphabet and Following Phonetic Description

END-OF-TERM TEST ON ENGLISH PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
Time allotted: 30 minutes
Please read the questions provided with four choices, marked A, B, C, and D in this reading paper. Then, on your answer sheet, tick the correct box for the letter that corresponds to the answer you have chosen.
** ** Please do not write anything in this reading paper.

1. Which of the following groups contains a segment that differs in voicing from the other segments ?
A. [z, d , ð, b ]
B. [ m, n, ŋ , D ]
C. [ w, j , r, l ]
D. [ b, d, g, k ]
2. Which of the following is closest to the minimal pair? A. [ f&t ] [ h&t ] fat – hat
B. [ f&t ] [ t&b ] fat - tab
C. [ f&t ] [ v&t ] fat – vat
D. [ f&t ] [ k&t ] fat – cat
3. Which of the following statements is correct? All the consonants are produced with
A. an extra puff of the air strongly expelled
B. no vibration of the vocal cords
C. vibration of the vocal cords
D. an obstruction of the airstream (complete or partial)
4. Which of the following statements is incorrect? Palato- alveolar is the sound made
A. as a very rapidly articulated non-syllabic segment
B. with the tongue at the alveolar ridge
C. just behind the alveolar ridge
D. with the identical articulation to that of the long vowel [ i: ]
5. Which of the following symbols that corresponds to each of the following phonetic description: voiceless labiodental fricative
A. [ f ] B. [ w ] C. [D ] D. [ v ]
6. Which of the following statements is correct? When a feature value is unpredictable by a general principle or rule, it is
A. a redundant feature for that class of segment B. a phonetic feature for sounds that contrast
C. a distinctive feature for that class of segments
D. a non-distinctive or non-phonemic feature for that class of segments

7. Which of the following symbols that corresponds to each of the following phonetic