Home/Quiz Bank Linguistics/Linguistic Test 7 Quiz Bank Linguistics Linguistic Test 7 Ahmad JavedJanuary 19, 20220 54 Welcome to your Linguistic Test 7 A distinctive feature defined as 'exhibiting a concentration of energy in the upper frequencies of the spectrum', interpreted as representing a non-peripheral Acute Flap Stressed None of the above In historical linguistics, a procedure for establishing the forms of words and grammatical morphemes in an unattested ancestral language by comparing the forms found in its several daughter languages Contrastive reconstruction Comparative reconstruction Parallel reconstruction Complementary reconstruction The degree to which speech is uninterrupted by pauses Regularity Continuity Progressive Turn taking The visible projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx at the front of the throat, usually far more prominent in men than in women Uvula Adam's apple Windpipe Trachea An exchange in the positions of two segments in a word, either as a historical change or as a synchronic rule Prosthesis Epithesis Metathesis Epenthesis The phenomenon in which two or more phonemes receive identical phonetic realizations in identical environments. Compact overlapping Complete overlapping Partial overlapping Incomplete overlapping The appearance of a particular change in a particular language at a particular time Philology Actuation Diachrony Synchrony Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in a particular word, such as /i: / and /ai/ in either or /i: / and /e/ in economics Monophone Meta phone Diaphone Allophone Phonemes involve an auditory explosion (‘puff of air’) where the air can be heard passing through the glottis after the release phase Flap Aspirated Unvoiced Voiced Uninterrupted speech by a single individual Idiolect speech Casual speech Connected speech Continuous speech Time is Up! Time's up Ahmad JavedJanuary 19, 20220 54 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit VKontakte WhatsApp Share via Email Print