Chapter 2 Phonology

1. ________ is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.

A. Phonology

B. Phonetics 语音学

C. Morphology

D. Phonemics

2. Acoustic phoneticians try to describe the ________ properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues.

A. oral

B. mental

C. physical

D. recorded

3. The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ________ sounds.

A. voiceless

B. voiced

C. vowel

D. consonantal

4. [p] is a voiceless bilabial ________.

A. affricate

B. fricative

C. stop

D. liquid

5. ________ aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.

A. Linguistics

B. Phonetics

C. Phonology

D. Articulatory phonetics

6. A ________ is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

A. Phoneme音位

B. phone

C. sound

D. speech

7. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ________ of that phoneme.

A. phones

B. sounds

C. phonemes

D. Allophones语位变体

8. ________ is a typical tone language.

A. English

B. Chinese

C. French

D. American English

答案(反白可见)：B C A C C A D B