________ is a unit of speech which is at a level higher than the speech sound or phoneme ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The different concrete phonetic variation of the same phoneme are called______________?

   A. Allophones
   B. Homophones
   C. Homographs
   D. Homonyms

2. ______________are words which differ only in one phoneme ?

   A. Diphthongs
   B. Triphthongs
   C. Semi__vowels
   D. Minimal pairs

3. The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?

   A. Allophones
   B. Allomorphs
   C. Morpheme variants
   D. Minimal pairs

4. _________ is the process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another ?

   A. Onomatopoeia
   B. Assimilation
   C. Regression
   D. Progression

5. There is no positive relationship between a speech and sounD. This property of language is referred to as____________ ?

   A. Arbitrariness.
   B. Recursiveness
   C. Displacement
   D. TransferencE.

6. The preceding sound influencing the following sound is an instance of __________assimilation?

   A. Progressive
   B. Regressive
   C. Reciprocal
   D. None of the above

7. The study of elementary speech sounds is called________?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Syntax
   D. Semantics

8. ____________________are gliding sounds during the articulation of which, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another ?

   A. Diphthongs
   B. Triphthongs
   C. Semi__vowels
   D. Minimal pairs

9. ______________is concerned with the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language?

   A. Phonology
   B. Morphology
   C. Semantics
   D. Syntax

10. ____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?

    A. Stress
    B. Pitch
    C. Intonation
    D. JuncturE.