List of top Levels of Grammar and Grammatical Analysis Questions on Phonetics and Phonology

Which of the following option/s show/s increasing order of sonority, from left to right?
Which of the option/s can be applied to the following sound change rule? \( k \rightarrow ? / \_ \# \)

Given the following phonological rule, which one of the options CANNOT be an output? 


 

Which of the following set/s consist/s of at least two [+continuant] sounds?
Which of the following aspect/s use/s pitch as a primary acoustic correlate?
Which of the following acoustic characteristics is/are applicable to the vowel /i/?
Which of the following sets depict/s natural class of alveolar consonants?

A linguist was asked to develop a syllabic writing system for a toy language Hadada with ONLY the following words (phonetic transcription):

A study on the use of the sounds in a language L was carried out in three geographical regions across both adult speakers and children below the age of 6 years. The palatal glide [j] and the retroflex lateral [l] are variants (allophones) of the standard sound [l], a retroflex glide. The table below describes usage of the three sounds across the three regions and the two populations. Which of the following conclusions are valid given the results of the study? \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|cc|cc|cc|} \hline Sounds in L & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 1} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 2} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Region 3}
& Adults & Children & Adults & Children & Adults & Children
\hline [j] & 1\% & 75\% & 28\% & 80\% & 25\% & 78\%
[l] & 11\% & 23\% & 45\% & 18\% & 74\% & 22\%
[l] & 88\% & 2\% & 27\% & 2\% & 1\% & 0\%
\hline \end{tabular} \end{center}
Match the numbered parts of the vocal tract (in the diagram given below) with the correct label from those given in the box and choose the appropriate option. \includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{3.png}
Labels: a. Labial cavity
b. Pharyngeal cavity
c. Alveolar ridge
d. Laryngeal cavity
Examine the following statements and choose the right option. Statement (I): A spectrogram shows the frequency components in a frequency over time display.
Statement (II): In a spectrogram, high vowels can be identified by a low F1, while a back vowel can be identified by a low F2.
Which word in the options below would be affected by the following phonological rule? \[ [+alveolar, +nasal] \;\;\rightarrow\;\; [+dental] \; / \; \_\_\_\_ \; [+dental, +fricative] \]

Match the following historical sound changes in Column X with the processes in Column Y 

Consider the pattern of stress assignment shown below. Which of the given statements is/are true? 

The following figure depicts a spectrum of a vowel (dashed line), where $F_0 = 150$ Hz and $F_0 = H1$. The harmonics are indicated from $H1$ to $H11$. From the figure, the frequency (in Hz) of the second formant ($F2$) of this vowel is __________

Devanagari organizes the consonant graphemes as shown in the image. What is the parameter by which the following two rows differ? 

The phenomenon where 'missed hotel' is pronounced as 'hissed motel' is known as \(\underline{\hspace{2cm}}\)

In a given constraint ranking of COMPLEX, DEP-IO $>>$ MAX-IO for the input /spun/, which of the following candidates is/are optimal?
Which of the following sound pairs differ from each other in exactly two articulatory parameters?
If [p] and [pʰ] are allophones of the same phoneme /p/, which of the following statements is/are true?
Which of the given logical forms correspond to the following sentence where \( x \in \) student, \( y \) teacher and \( A = \) admires?
Every student admires a teacher.
Consider the following data from English. Which linguistic change(s) is/are associated with the addition of the suffix ‘-able’?
Consider the given script showing a sequence of 11 graphemes. It represents the sentence: /apa pal talip tani mil/. Each grapheme in the script contains a _________.
The sound change of Proto-Indo-Aryan /p/ to Germanic /f/, deduced by comparing cognates like Latin pater, Sanskrit pita and English father, is an example of _________.
Which of the following diagrams depict(s) the violation of a principle of autosegmental phonology?