Linguistic Test 7

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

Allophone

Diaphone

Monophone

Meta phone

Uninterrupted speech by a single individual

Idiolect speech

Continuous speech

Casual speech

Connected speech

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

Epenthesis

Epithesis

Prosthesis

Metathesis

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

Trachea

Adam's apple

The appearance of a particular change in a particular language at a particular time

Synchrony

Actuation

Diachrony

Philology

The degree to which speech is uninterrupted by pauses

Continuity

Turn taking

Regularity

Progressive

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

Incomplete overlapping

Partial overlapping

Compact overlapping

Complete overlapping

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

None of the above

Acute

Flap

Stressed

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

Complementary reconstruction

Comparative reconstruction

Contrastive reconstruction

Parallel reconstruction

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

Unvoiced

Aspirated

Voiced

Flap