PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Full name: …Hồ Minh

MINI - TEST 2
Trọng……………………………. Time: 30 minutes
Student ID: … CODE 1

20DH711744…………………………

I. Mark (√) each of the following sentences true or false

TRUE FALSE
1. Phonemic symbols are enclosed within slant FALSE
brackets [ ]

2. Secondary stress is the type of stress in a word FALSE

that is weaker than the unstressed stress.
3. Stress is defined as using much more muscular TRUE
energy while articulating the words.
4. A verb ends with more than one consonant, so TRUE
that first syllable is stressed.
5. The pre-final can be m, n, 7, l, s. TRUE
6. If a syllable begins with one consonant, that initial FALSE
consonant may be any phoneme but /7/; /2/ is rare.
7. An elision rule “assimilates one segment to TRUE
another by ‘copying’ or ‘spreading’ a feature of a
sequential phoneme on to its neighboring segment, thus
making the two phones more similar.
8. If there is a consonant at the end of the word, that FALSE
consonant is called final consonant.
9. A vowel or a voiced continuant consonant is FALSE
devoiced before a final voiceless consonant.
10. Fricatives are continuant obstruents because TRUE
although the air is not completely stopped in its passage
through the oral cavity.

II/ Find out the distinctive features in the underlined consonant / vowel in each pair:
III/ Analyse the syllable structure of the following words:
Spite, quail, plead, prompt, placed.
IV/ Give the phonemic transcription and then the phonetic transcription of each of the
following words according to Received Pronunciation:
Cotton, final, played, tonight, notch