胡壮麟语言学第二章题.docx

胡壮麟《语言学教程》（修订版）测试题——第二章：语音 您所查看的帖子来源于考研加油站考研论坛() Chapter 2 Speech Sounds Choose the best answer. (20%) Pitch variation is known as when its patterns are imposed on sentences. intonation B. tone C. pronunciation D. voice Conventionally a is put in slashes (/ /). allophone B. phone C. phoneme D. morpheme An aspirated p, an unaspirated p and an unreleased p are of the p phoneme. analogues B. tagmemes C. morphemes D. allophones The opening between the vocal cords is sometimes referred to as . glottis B. vocal cavity C. pharynx D. uvula The diphthongs that are made with a movement of the tongue towards the center are known as diphthongs. wide B. closing C. narrow D. centering A phoneme is a group of similar sounds called . minimal pairs B. allomorphs C. phones D. allophones Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds? Acoustic phonetics B. Articulatory phonetics C. Auditory phonetics D. None of the above Which one is different from the others according to places of articulation? [n] B. [m] C. [ b ] D. [p] Which vowel is different from the others according to the characteristics of vowels? A. [i:] B. [ u ] C. [e] D. [ i ] What kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating? Voiceless B. Voiced C. Glottal stop D. Consonant Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%) Suprasegmental phonology refers to the study of phonological properties of units larger than the segment-phoneme, such as syllable, word and sentence. The air stream provided by the lungs has to undergo a number of modification to acquire the quality of a speech sound. Two sounds are in free variation when they occur in the same environment and do not contrast, namely, the substitution of one for the other does not produce a different word, but merely a different pronunciation. [p] is a voiced bilabial stop. Acoustic phonetics is concerned with the perception of speech sounds. All syllables must have a nucleus but not all syllables contain an