This assessment consists of ten multiple choice questions. Select the best answer to each question. If you are not sure of the correct answer, take your best guess. Each question has only one correct answer.

1. Which of the following statements about the terms phonetics and phonology is accurate?

  • Phonetics refers to how sounds are mentally organized while phonology refers to how sounds are produced.
  • Phonology refers to how sounds are mentally organized while phonetics refers to how sounds are produced.
  • The two terms are roughly synonymous and can be used interchangeably.
  • Phonology is a subfield of phonetics.
  • None of the statements above are accurate.

2. Which of the following pairs of words are usually pronounced the same by speakers of African-American English?

  • bone and bane
  • tin and ten
  • me and my
  • car and call
  • ship and chip

3. How is the word my pronounced by many speakers of African-American English?

  • The same as ma
  • The same as may
  • The same as me
  • The same as meh
  • None of the above

4. Which of the following pairs of words are usually pronounced the same by speakers of African-American English?

  • fin and thin
  • that and vat
  • day and they
  • through and true
  • call and car

5. Which of the following sets of words rhyme with the word more in African-American English?

  • low and law
  • roar and sore
  • go and mower
  • flow and tore
  • None of these sets of words rhyme with more in African-American English.

6. Why might a speaker of African-American English spell the word no as nawl?

  • Because speakers of African-American English generally have difficulty with spelling
  • Because speakers of African-American English often add consonant sounds to the end of words that lack them in Standard English
  • Because speakers of African-American English sometimes pronounce the word no as [na:] and word-final /l/ is often deleted (not pronounced) before a vowel sound
  • Because the word nawl (pronounced [nawl]) is a synonym for no that exists in African-American English but not Standard English
  • No speaker of African-American English is likely to spell the word no as nawl.

7. How is the sequence thr- pronounced by many speakers of African-American English when it begins a word and is followed by a back vowel, such as /u/ or /o/, as in the words through and throw?

  • [tr] (as it true)
  • [dr] (as in drew)
  • [th] (as in thump)
  • [fr] (as in frozen)
  • [tw] (as in twist)

8. Which of the following pronunciations of the word street is stigmatized among many speakers of African-American English?

  • [skrit] (skreet)
  • [strik] (streak)
  • [štrik] (shtreet)
  • [trit] (treat)
  • [stit] (steet)

9. Which of the following sets of words rhyme in African-American English?

  • ask, mats, racks
  • friend, bin, limp
  • rasp, caps, tapped
  • rays, paste, case
  • post, roast, close

10. Which of the following pairs of words are pronounced the same by many speakers of African-American English?

  • masks and masses
  • fill and feel
  • lost and loss
  • tests and Tess’s
  • All of the pairs of words above can be pronounced the same by speakers of African-American English.