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VOWEL & DIPHTONG VOC EXAM QUESTIONS Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -22 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: retroflex

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literally a turned back: this term is used to denote sounds that carry r coloring or comes to have it because of contextual influences, such as the words bird and futher.

Question 2: vowel quadrilateral

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a four-sided figure have the corner vowels and its vertices. A diagram show in the position of the tongue for the vowel articulation

Question 3: high vowel

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a vowel produced with the tongue in a high (superior) position. /i/ (he) /u/ who

Question 4: reduction of a vowel

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generally, a shorting or unstressed of a vowel, which may be accompanied a change in vowel quality ,usually in the direction of centralization

Question 5: tongue advancement

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the vowel feature or dimension per taining to the position of the tongue body along the anterior-posterior aspect. advancement implies anterior or frontal positioning.

Question 6: What is a monophthongs

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A pure vowel having a single unchanging sound quality.

Question 7: lax vowel

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a vowel that is relative short in duration is assumed to have reduced muscular tension.

Question 8: What is a diphthong

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a vowel like sound that serves as a syllable nucleus and involves a gradual transition from one vowel articulation (on glide) to another (off glide)

Question 9: what is a vowel

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a speech sound thatis formed without a significant constriction of the oral and pharyngeal cavities and serves as a syllable nucleus

Question 10: low vowel

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a vowel produced with the tongue in a low (inferior) position. /a/ hot /ae/ hat

Question 11: back vowel

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a vowel produced with the tongue positioned toward the back of the month. /u/ (who) /a/ ha

Question 12: central vowel (point)

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a vowel produced with the tongue positioned in the center of the mouth exp first vowel in upon

Question 13: tense vowel

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a vowel that is relatively long in duration and is assumed to be produced relative tense or active musculature the vocal tract

Question 14: nasalized vowel

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a vowel produced with a nasal resonances usually because of a n open velopharynx

Question 15: derhotacization

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partial loss or coloring from a normally rhotacized vowel (er sound)

Question 16: onglide

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the initial vowel or vocal tract shape of a diphthong

Question 17: r colored

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a sound that carries the phonetic quality of /r/, the rotic consonant

Question 18: rhotacization

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a property or process related to r coloring.In phonetics, vocalic r refers to the phenomenon of a rhotic segment such as [r] or [?] occurring as the syllable nucleus.

Question 19: monophtongization

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alteration of a diphthong to a pure vowel , loss of the dynamic phonetic quality of a diphthong

Question 20: front vowel

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a vowel produced with the positioned tongue near the front of the mouth. high front are /i/ as in he low front are /ae/ hat

Question 21: tongue placement

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the vowel feature or dimension pertaining to the position of the tongue body along the superior-inferior aspect

Question 22: offglide

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the terminal vowel or vocal tract shape of a diphthong