The /p/ in top-most is a
Bilabial plosion
Alveolar plosion
Nasal plosion
Incomplete plosion
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The /p/ in top-most is a
Bilabial plosion
Alveolar plosion
Nasal plosion
Incomplete plosion
The /k/ sound in actand picture is a
Bilabial plosion
Alveolar plosion
Nasal plosion
Incomplete plosion
The /k/ in kill and skill are
Allophones
Allomorphs
Morpheme variants
Minimal pairs
The /d/ in middle is an instance of
Lateral plosion
Alveolar plosion
Nasal plosion
Incomplete plosion
Syllables in which the consonant functions as nucleus are called
Syllabic consonants
Sibilants
Suffixes
None of the above
Stress is used for the sake of
Emphasis
Loudness
Double meaning
None of the above
Sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue or the blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge are called
Dental
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Alveolar
Sounds articulated by two lips are called
Dental
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Alveolar
Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue placed against the upper teeth are called
Dental
Labio-dental
Bilabial
Alveolar
Sounds articulated by the lower lip placed against the upper teeth are called
Dental
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Alveolar
Semi-vowels are also known as
Approximants
Laterals
Sibilants
Trills
Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in
Contrastive distribution
Complementary distribution
Non-contrastive distribution
None of the above
On the basis of the criterion of the state of the tension of the tongue, vowels can be classified into
Round vowels & unrounded vowels
Front vowels & back vowels
High vowels & low vowels
Tense vowels &lax vowels
Morpheme alternants are called
Allophones
Allomorphs
Minimal pairs
None of the above
Language is never static. It goes on changing. This property of language is called
Dynamic
Recursiveness
Displacement
Transference
It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called
Duality of structure
Recursiveness
Displacement
Transference
IPA stands for
Inter National Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Association
Both a & b
Neither a nor b
IPA stands for
International political alphabet
International phonetic association
Indian phonetic alphabet
All the above
In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated
Kill
Skill
Skin
Skit
In transformational Generative Grammar, the Generative means
to produce
to develop
to predict
All the above