Phonology exam questions 1.

In which accent are do and due homophonous?

General American

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Which is *not* a possible word-final cluster in English?

-zg

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Which word is spelt regularly, without any quality or quantity

deviation?

petty /pɛ́tɪj/

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Which vowel is articulated with the frontest tongue position?

ɛ

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Which lexical sets have the same vowel in SSBE?

PALM-BATH

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Which of the following stress patterns is impossible for an

English word? (s=stressed, w=unstressed)

ww

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In GOAT-fronting the first part of [ow] shifts to become [əw].

In which of the following words does this regularly fail to happen?

coal

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Which of the following diphthongs is a new development in

British English?

ʉj

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Which formula describes the stress pattern of the word

synagogue [sɪ́nəgɔg]?

śws

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One of the following pairs of long vowels of Current British

English are merging with each another. Which one?

ʉː--oː

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Which set contains only marginal diphthongs?

ɪj ʉw

Which I is in free graphic position?

titled

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Which statement is false?

Sounds in complementary distribution may be contrastive.

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Which syllable is the beginning of the head in the tone unit

The book is on the table?

book

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Which is *not* a possible word-initial cluster in English

θl-

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Which is postalveolar?

tʃ

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A dialect has [tʃ] but no [ʃ]. In a related dialect all original [tʃ]'s change to [ʃ]. There will be a ... difference between two dialects.

realizational

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Which type of consonant does not occur word finally in English?

glides

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Which pair is usually homophonous in SSBE?

poor-paw

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Sawed and sword are both pronounced /soːd/. They are ...

homophones

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Variety A has [mɑj nɛjm ɪz bɛtɪj], variety B has [mɒi naim ɪz bɛʔəi].

The two varieties are different accents.

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Which type of vowel occurs word initially?

all of them

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Which of the following function words does not have a weak form?

off

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Which word has a long vowel that resulted from compensatory lengthening?

Carter [kɑːtə]

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What does the pair map [map] ~ nap [nap] exemplify?

overlapping distribution

Which group of vowels does *not* occur at the end of a word?

short monophthongs

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Which R may be syllabic in SSBE?

témpeRa

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Which of these is a normal grapheme of English spelling?

UI

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Which is a sibilant?

ʃ

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Which set contains exclusively rounded vowels?

u o ɔ ɒ

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