Comprehensive Phonetics And Phonology – Speech Sounds, Articulatory Features, And Developmental Stages Practice Test

What does word-final position describe?

The middle of a word The beginning of a word The end of a syllable The end of a word

Correct Answer:

The end of a word

Explanation:

Word-final position describes where a sound sits relative to the end of the word—the final segment you pronounce before the word boundary. In any word you can have initial, medial, and final positions; the final position is simply the last sound of the word. For example, in “cat” the final sound is /t/; in “happiness” the final sound is /s/; in “computer” the final sound is typically the rhotacized vowel /ʌ/ in many dialects. This is about the end of the whole word, not the end of a syllable, which can occur earlier within multisyllabic words.

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