The English consonants /t/, /n/, and /d/ are all:
a) voiced consonants
b) oral stop consonants
c) alveolar consonants
d) palatal consonants
Ques. 2Which of these sounds are alveolar consonants?
a) /t/ and //
b) /t/ and /s/
c) /d/ and /m/
d) /k/ and /g/
Ques. 3Consonant sounds are normally classified on the basis of
a) place and manner of articulation and voicing
b) voicing, alveolar interference, and articulatory difficulty
c) stops, glides, and contrasts
d) phonetic detail, specificity, and voicing
Ques. 4The transition between babble and speech
a) is usually marked by a silent period
b) is a gradual progression: speech and babble often coexist for several months
c) requires a phonetic inventory
d) does not predict the quality of phonetic development for children with hearing loss
Ques. 5Vocalizations such as baba or dada normally first appear at about:
a) 3-4 months
b) 6 7 months
c) 10 11 months
d) 14 18 months
Ques. 6Which of the following terms is NOT used to refer to the ethnic dialect used at home by many Black Americans
a) African American English
b) African American Vernacular English
c) Black American English
d) General American English
Ques. 7In English, the plural morpheme
a) is always realized in the same way for all nouns and verbs
b) is realized in different ways, depending on the final sound of the word to which it is added, but always takes the form of /s/ or /z/
c) has both regular allomorphs and irregular allomorphs that have to be learned individually
d) has so many irregular allomorphs that speakers don't normally learn productive rules for making plurals
Ques. 8A child who says gug for bug and gig for big but who properly pronounces /b/ in some contexts, is demonstrating
a) cluster reduction
b) perceptual difficulties
c) assimilation
d) stylistic variation
Ques. 9The sound patterns of Spanish and English present somewhat different challenges to children. Which statement below is FALSE?
a) English has more word-initial consonant clusters than Spanish
b) Spanish has more words with final consonants than English
c) the average length of Spanish words is greater than the average length of English words.
d) English has more different vowels than Spanish.
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