上海师范大学卜友红教授语音学笔试试卷.doc

上海师范大学 外国语 学院（部）期末考试 语音 试卷专业: 英语专业 课程代码: 学号: 姓 名: 总 分题号一二三四五六七核分人题分复分人得分得 分评卷人I. Mark the stress of the following according to themeaning described in the brackets (10%)Examples:black board (one that is black) black board (one that is used for classroom teaching)1. Chinese teacher (who teaches Chinese)Chinese teacher (who is Chinese)2. green house (glass building for plants)green house (one that is green)3. cross word (type of puzzle)cross word (angry word)4. dry goods (goods that are dry)dry goods (drapery布匹)5. swimming babyswimming-pool得 分评卷人II. Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to each phonetic description. (10%)For example / u / high back loose/short vowel1. _ voiceless bilabial plosive2. _ voiced alveolar fricative3. _ velar nasal4. _ palatal semi-vowel5. _ voiced palatal-alveolar affricate6. _ high back long vowel7. _ low front unrounded vowel8. _ high front tense vowel9. _ low central vowel10. _ mid front vowel得 分评卷人III. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False (10%) ( ) 1. A phoneme has only one allophone. ( ) 2. English consonants are voiced or voiceless.( ) 3. Your tongue should be higher when pronouncing / u: / than /.( )4. / s / and / z / have the same place of articulation.( ) 5. When pronouncing a diphthong, the first part is shorter and weaker than the second part.( ) 6. English phonetics is the science of English speech sounds. It deals with the sound system of the English language.( ) 7. A consonant is a sound produced without obstruction in the oral cavity, while a vowel is a sound produced with an obstruction.( ) 8. The mostly used vowel in English is called “schwa”. The symbol phonetically is / /. It is used in unstressed syllable.( ) 9. We have both falling and rising diphthongs in Chinese sound system, but in English there are only falling diphthongs.( ) 10. Generally speaking, front vowels are pronounced with rounded lips, while back vowels with spread lips.得 分评卷人IVFill in each blank with one word or one phoneme. (20%)1. The four bilabials in English consonants are_, _, _, and /w/. The voiceless bilabial is _.2. / t / is different from / d / because / t / is _, while / d / is _.3. Dark comes after a _ or before a _.4. A vowel sound, which functions as a single phoneme but which is formed by a glide from one vowel to another, is known as a _.5. By _ we mean the rise and fall of the voice, or the pitch variations in connected speech. It is the speech tunes or melodies, the musical features of English.6. When we analyze an English monophthong, we should pay attention to the height of the tongue, the _ of the tongue and the _ of the lips.7. There are mainly two kinds of phonetic transcriptions. The one which uses more than one symbol to illustrate a phoneme is known as _ Transcription, while the one which use only one symbol to illustrate a phoneme is known as _ Transcription.8. Sounds produced by raising the tongue-tip to the teeth ridge are called _.9. Use _ tone on complete, definite statements, and _ tone in statements implying “but”.10. The three approximants are _, _, and _.得 分评卷人V. Mark out the component parts of the followingtone-group (10%)Example: Theres plenty of time to prepare the lesson.Theres plenty of time to prepare the les son.Pre-head Head Nucleus Tail1. I get up at six every morning.2. I think its quite possible.3. Are you coming tomorrow?4. Its going to rain, Im afraid.5. Birds of a feather flock together.得 分评卷人VI. Diagrammatize the intonation of the following (10%)Example: I didnt sleep a wink last night.1. Its milk.Is it milk?2 Train tickets are going to be cheaper next month.3. Will you come to tea tomorrow?4. I didnt notice any difference.5. It was seven o clock on a cold December morning.得 分评卷人VII. Answer the questions and use examples to illustrate your answers. (30%)1. What