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