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Answer the 15 multiple choice questions about the IPA
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Last updated: December 16, 2025
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1. Which of the following is an example of a minimal pair?
Cat/Cats
Think/Thing
Banana/Pineapple
Ship/Sheep
2. What is the IPA symbol for the sound at the start of "church"?
/θ/
/tʃ/
/ʃ/
/ʒ/
3. A language that primarily relies on word order rather than morphology is called...
Agglutinative
Analytic
Synthetic
Polysynthetic
4. In phonetics, voicing refers to...
If the tongue touches the palate
Whether the vocal folds vibrate
Duration of the vowel
How far the tongue moves
5. Which word contains a velar nasal /ŋ/?
finger
cock
balls
singer
6. What process is happening when a sound becomes more like a neighboring sound?
Dissimilation
Epenthesis
Deletion
Assimilation
7. Which word has an aspirated stop?
spin
skin
bin
pin
8. How do you pronounce the response to whining and complaining - "Wah-wah"?
/wɔ wɔ/
/wɑ wɑ/
/wa wɪ/
/wɛ wɛ/
9. Which word has a tap /ɾ/ in most American English?
backer
bat
book
butter
10. Which is a homophone set?
meat/meet
break/bark
though/rough
cough/bough
11. Can a match box?
yes, one beat mike tyson
yes
no
no, but a tin can
12. In IPA, what is the sound /θ/?
Voiceless palatal affricate
Voiced velar stop
Voiceless dental fricative
Voiced dental fricative
13. What is the primary articulator in a bilabial sound?
Lips
Tongue and teeth
Soft palate
False confidence
14. Which of these has a voiceless velar stop
I'm going to kill you and chop up your limbs
She fed the little animal peanut butter
I know what you do when no one is watching
The young boy saw a huge owl in the yard
15. How do you pronounce Omer (Hebrew origin)
/ˈoʊmɚ/
/oˈmerə/
/ˈɔmər/
/oˈmɛr/
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3 Comments
BenutzerWalter
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Level 43
Mar 27, 2026
The singer/finger one doesn't make sense, I thought the -inger were pronounced the same?
tjcerasi
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Level 23
Apr 3, 2026
youre right
frogfacts
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Level 49
Apr 10, 2026
Omer (עוֹמֶר) really is pronounced /ˈoʊ̯mɚ/ or /ˈoʊ̯mɛɹ/ in Ashkenazi English. I would pronounce Lag b'Omer for example as /lɑɡ bʌˈoʊ̯mɚ/. Some communities would even say /ˈɔɪ̯mɚ/. But pronouncing it with stress on the last syllable is ungrammatical. Even in the original Hebrew, /ˈʔomɛʁ/ (Modern) or /ˈʕoːmɛʀ̟/ (Tiberian) is stressed on the penultimate syllable, not the final syllable.