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Voice (phonetics) - Quiz
Contributed by: Mistry
  • 1. What is the term used in phonetics to describe the vibration of the vocal folds?
A) Voicing
B) Glottalization
C) Aspiration
D) Articulation
  • 2. In phonology, what unit is typically used to classify voicing?
A) Diacritics
B) Phones
C) Phonemes
D) Syllables
  • 3. Which language is noted as an exception where vowels and sonorants are not always modally voiced?
A) English
B) Yidiny
C) Icelandic
D) Yanyuwa
  • 4. Which two languages are mentioned as having no underlyingly voiceless consonants?
A) Yidiny and Yanyuwa
B) Yanyuwa and English
C) Icelandic and English
D) Yidiny and Icelandic
  • 5. What diacritic is used in the IPA for voicing?
A) ◌ʰ
B) ◌̥
C) ◌̬
D) ◌ˑ
  • 6. What is the primary difference between a phone and a phoneme?
A) A phone is an abstract representation; a phoneme is a sound
B) A phone represents voicing; a phoneme represents aspiration
C) There is no difference between the two
D) A phone is a sound; a phoneme is an abstract representation
  • 7. How are phonemes represented in writing?
A) With diacritics only
B) Between square brackets
C) With bold letters
D) Between slashes
  • 8. What effect occurs before voiced consonants in English to help distinguish them from unvoiced ones?
A) Aspiration
B) Vowel lengthening
C) Vowel shortening
D) Glottalization
  • 9. What term is used to describe the airflow burst following the release of a stop closure?
A) Voicing
B) Aspiration
C) Devoicing
D) Sonorance
  • 10. Which IPA diacritic symbol is used for devoicing?
A) ◌ʰ
B) ◌̥
C) ◌̬
D) ◌ˑ
  • 11. What happens to the voicing of sonorants after aspirated consonants in words like 'coffee'?
A) Voicing is doubled
B) Voicing is delayed
C) The sonorant becomes voiced
D) The sonorant is removed
  • 12. Which sounds are generally modally voiced in most European languages?
A) Fricatives and glottal stops
B) Vowels and sonorants
C) Obstruents and stops
D) Unvoiced consonants
  • 13. When voicing is absent in a sound that is typically voiced, it is known as:
A) Aspiration
B) Devoicing
C) Prevoicing
D) Articulation
  • 14. How are phones represented in writing?
A) Between slashes
B) Between parentheses
C) Between square brackets
D) With italics
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