Linguistic Test 7

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

Comparative reconstruction

Contrastive reconstruction

Parallel reconstruction

Complementary reconstruction

An exchange in the positions of two segments in a word, either as a historical change or as a synchronic rule

Epenthesis

Prosthesis

Epithesis

Metathesis

The phenomenon in which two or more phonemes receive identical phonetic realizations in identical environments.

Incomplete overlapping

Partial overlapping

Complete overlapping

Compact overlapping

Uninterrupted speech by a single individual

Casual speech

Connected speech

Continuous speech

Idiolect speech

Phonemes involve an auditory explosion (‘puff of air’) where the air can be heard passing through the glottis after the release phase

Voiced

Unvoiced

Aspirated

Flap

The degree to which speech is uninterrupted by pauses

Regularity

Progressive

Turn taking

Continuity

A distinctive feature defined as 'exhibiting a concentration of energy in the upper frequencies of the spectrum', interpreted as representing a non-peripheral

Stressed

Flap

Acute

None of the above

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

Windpipe

Uvula

Adam's apple

Trachea

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

Diaphone