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Minitest 4 - Key: I, Match The Word With The Correct Vowel

1. The document provides a matching exercise between words and their vowel sounds. 2. There are 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of vowel and consonant sounds in English words. 3. The last section requires identifying 4 statements about phonetics as true or false.

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Minitest 4 - Key: I, Match The Word With The Correct Vowel

1. The document provides a matching exercise between words and their vowel sounds. 2. There are 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of vowel and consonant sounds in English words. 3. The last section requires identifying 4 statements about phonetics as true or false.

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Minitest 4 _ Key

I, Match the word with the correct vowel:


bone your air speech wide back sweat watch which calf
high front
long x
vowel
high front
short x
vowel
low back
long x
vowel
low back x
short
vowel
backing x
diphthong
fronting x
diphthong
low front x
vowel
mid front x
vowel
mid back x
vowel
centring x
diphthong

II, MCQ:
11. The underlined sound in ‘breakfast’ is a …………vowel
A. mid front B. low front C. high front D. diphthong
12. The underlined sound in ‘explosion’ is a……….
A. fortis alveolar fricative B. lenis alveolar fricative
C. fortis post-alveolar fricative D. lenis post-alveolar fricative
13. The underlined sound in ‘comfortable’ is a ………………
A. mid central vowel B. low back vowel
C. centring diphthong D. closing diphthong
14. The vowel sound in ‘world’ is a………………vowel.
A. low back long B. mid back long C. mid central long D. diphthong
15. The vowel sound in ‘home’ is a……………vowel.
A. mid central long B. backing diphthong C. centring diphthong D. fronting
diphthong
16. Which word has a clear l?
A. seal B. world C. lion D. milk
17. In which word is the lateral consonant devoiced?
A. letter B. clear C. filling D. slow
18. The velar plosive is retracted in……..?
A. kiss B. call C. curl D. cat
19. The first vowel in ‘bury’ is a ........... vowel.
A. front B. central C. back D. low
20. Choose the word that consists of a sound that does not share a phonetic feature with other
sounds.
A. pool B. car C. hand D. keep

III, Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
21. Dark l, clear l and devoiced l are allophones of the phonetic /l/. F
22. A phonetic transcription provides more details about the quality of the sounds T
than a phonemic transcription.
23. There are 5 phonemes in the word ‘tough’. F
24. The vowel sound in ‘train’ is nasalized. T

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