1、英语语音试卷 第 1 页(共 6 页)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 teac
2、her (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 评卷人得 分 评卷人英语语音试卷 第 2 页(共 6 页)
3、II. Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to eachphonetic 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 fr
4、ont unrounded vowel8. _ high front tense vowel9. _ low central vowel10. _ mid front vowelIII. Decide whether each of the following statements is True orFalse (10%) ( ) 1. A phoneme has only one allophone. ( ) 2. English consonants are voiced or voiceless.( ) 3. Your tongue should be higher when pron
5、ouncing / 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.( )
6、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 diphtho
7、ngs 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.IV Fill in each blank with one word or one phoneme. (20%)得 分 评卷人得 分 评卷人英语语音试卷 第 3 页(共 6 页)1. The four bilabials
8、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
9、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
10、 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
11、 teeth ridge are called _.9. Use _ tone on complete, definite statements, and _ tone in statements implying “but”.10. The three approximants are _, _, and _.V. Mark out the component parts of the followingtone-group (10%)Example: Theres plenty of time to pre pare the lesson.Theres plenty of time to
12、pre pare the les son.Pre-head Head Nucleus Tail1. I get up at six every morning.2. I think its quite possible.得 分 评卷人英语语音试卷 第 4 页(共 6 页)3. Are you coming to morrow?4. Its going to rain, Im a fraid.5. Birds of a feather flock to gether.VI. Diagrammatize the intonation of the following (10%)Example: I
13、 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 to morrow?4. I didnt notice any difference.5. It was seven o clock on a cold De cember morning.得 分 评卷人英语语音试卷 第 5 页(共 6 页)VII. Answer the questions and use examples to illustrate your answers. (30%)1. What is sentence stress? What kinds of words are usually stressed in a sentence and what kinds of words are not?_2. In what ways do the English vowels / u: / and / / differ from each other?得 分 评卷人英语语音试卷 第 6 页(共 6 页)_
