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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?
Banana/Pineapple
Think/Thing
Cat/Cats
Ship/Sheep
2. What is the IPA symbol for the sound at the start of "church"?
/ʒ/
/ʃ/
/tʃ/
/θ/
3. A language that primarily relies on word order rather than morphology is called...
Polysynthetic
Agglutinative
Synthetic
Analytic
4. In phonetics, voicing refers to...
Duration of the vowel
If the tongue touches the palate
Whether the vocal folds vibrate
How far the tongue moves
5. Which word contains a velar nasal /ŋ/?
finger
balls
cock
singer
6. What process is happening when a sound becomes more like a neighboring sound?
Dissimilation
Deletion
Assimilation
Epenthesis
7. Which word has an aspirated stop?
pin
bin
skin
spin
8. How do you pronounce the response to whining and complaining - "Wah-wah"?
/wɑ wɑ/
/wɔ wɔ/
/wɛ wɛ/
/wa wɪ/
9. Which word has a tap /ɾ/ in most American English?
book
backer
bat
butter
10. Which is a homophone set?
break/bark
meat/meet
though/rough
cough/bough
11. Can a match box?
no
no, but a tin can
yes
yes, one beat mike tyson
12. In IPA, what is the sound /θ/?
Voiceless dental fricative
Voiceless palatal affricate
Voiced velar stop
Voiced dental fricative
13. What is the primary articulator in a bilabial sound?
Soft palate
Tongue and teeth
False confidence
Lips
14. Which of these has a voiceless velar stop
I'm going to kill you and chop up your limbs
I know what you do when no one is watching
She fed the little animal peanut butter
The young boy saw a huge owl in the yard
15. How do you pronounce Omer (Hebrew origin)
/oˈmɛr/
/ˈoʊmɚ/
/oˈmerə/
/ˈɔmər/
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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 50
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.