____________refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech?

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

The term________________refers to omissions of certain sounds, syllables or even words in continuous speech?

A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Elision
D. None of the above

How many types of phonetic transcriptions are generally followed ?

A. Only one
B. Two
C. Innumerable
D. None of the above

/m/ is a ______________consonant?

A. Bilabial
B. Bilabial__nasal
C. Velar
D. Glottal

The word ‘bank’ in ‘on the banks on the river’ and ‘banks are financial institutions’ is called a____________?

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

Syllables in which the consonant functions as nucleus are called________?

A. Syllabic consonants
B. Sibilants
C. Suffixes
D. None of the above

The final /n/ in the words ‘sudden’ and ‘mutton’ are __________________?

A. Syllabic consonants
B. Sibilants
C. Suffixes
D. None of the above

________________are also called secondary phonemes?

A. Suprasegmentals
B. Morphemes
C. Allomorphs
D. Allophones

______________is the degree of force with which a sound of syllable is uttereD ?

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

The ‘r’ in red is articulated as a______________?

A. Trill
B. Lateral
C. Frictionless continuant
D. Semi__vowel