Reference no: EM13473889

1.Major difference between GAE and Southern American English?the glides

a.the front vowels
b.the fricatives
c.the affricates
d.the stops

2.Tensing variations ,Vowel lowering ,Diphthong variations ,Monophthongization ,Deletion of post vocalic r. 

a.match the best answer: the name harry is produced as haeri
b.the word car is pronoinced as Ka
c.the word course is pronounced as kos
d.the word fit is pronounced as fit
e.two is pronounced as tiu

3.The Telsur project did what? Choose as many as apply.

a.confirmed that vowel articulation in the US is not static
b.determined that people from the south use their vowels all wrong
c.determined that people from the Inland North talk funny
d.systematically examined speakers from 145 urban centers

4.What has happened to vowel articulation in the US? Choose as many as apply.

a.Northern Cities Shift
b.The born/barn effect in Utah
c.Back upglide shift in Southern English
d.Low back merger in the West

5.Arabic English speakers may have problems in their pronunciations of SAE words. Check all that apply.

a.voicing of p
b.vowels
c.deaffrication
d.devoicing of v
e.initial consonant clusters

6.Russian speakers of English may struggle with which of the following? Check all that apply.

a.word final devoicing
b.vowels
c.labiodentals
d.using epenthesis at the end of a word where it should not be used

7.Tagalog speakers are predicted to have problems with which English sounds listed below. Check all that apply.

a.interdentals
b.voiced stops
c.glides
d.liquids

8.Cantonese speakers are predicted to have problems with which sounds listed below. Check all that apply.

a.the affricates
b.the interdentals
c.the voiced stops
d.the liquids