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Theoretical Phonetics 

Tests


  1. What is the largest unit of speech?

    1. sentence

    2. text

    3. discourse

    4. utterance

  1. People engaged in the study of phonetics are called…

    1. grammarians 

    2. phoneticians

    3. scholars 

    4. linguists

3. Variations in pitch, prominence, and tempo are called…

a) prosodic

b) segmental

c) stress

d) tone

4. The result of an act of verbal communication is called …

a) word

b) syllable

c) utterance

d) discourse

5. A unit of spoken message large than a single sound and smaller than a word is called …

a) a syllable

b) a morpheme

c) a phoneme

d) a root

6. Pronunciation features in a foreign language influenced by the mother tongue are called …

a) dialect

b) intonation

c) a tone unit

d) accent

7. The process of transmitting a verbal message from a speaker to the listener via a channel is called…

a) discourse

b) utterance

c) speech

d) verbal communication

8. What units of speech correspond to the phoneme? 

a) a syllable

b) an allophone

c) a morpheme

d) a word

9. A process of using language for communication is called…

a) language

b) speech

c) utterance

d) discourse


10. What scholar first described RP as a hoped for standard?

a) L.V. Shcherba

b) Bernard Bloch

c) D. Jones

d) A.C. Gimson


11. How many aspects of speech sounds are distinguished?

a) 4

b) 3

c) 5

d) 2

12. How many major types can speech sounds be subdivided into according to the specific character of the work of the speech organs?

a) 2

b) 4

c) 24

d) 20

13. From acoustic point of view, vowels are called the sounds of… 

a) obstruction

b) tone

c) voice

d) noise

14. Vowels have no …

a) length

b) tenseness

c) place of obstruction

d) lip position

15 [r, w, j] are termed …

a) apical

b) occlusive

c) affricates

d) semi-vowels

16. Name a lateral sound

a) [m]

b) [l]

c) [ŋ]

d) [w]


17. Which aspect of speech sounds do such properties as frequency, spectrum, intensity, and duration constitute?

a) articulatory

b) auditory

c) linguistic

d) acoustic

18. The auditory aspect of speech sounds involves the mechanism of…

a) pronouncing 

b) functioning

c) hearing

d) listening

19. Sounds whose phonetic content is predominantly made up by the sound waves produced by their voicing are called …

a) vowels

b) sonorants

c) consonants

d) nasals

20. Which aspect defines every speech sound as a complex of definite coordinated and differentiated movements and positions of speech organs?

a) articulatory

b) acoustic

c) auditory

d) linguistic

21. Functional differences between Vs and Cs are defined by their role in …

a) work of vocal cords

b) the place of stress

c) syllable formation

d) the place of obstruction

22. Sounds made with a complete obstruction or stoppage of the airflow coming up from the lungs are called…

a) occlusive

b) constrictive

c) affricates 

d) trilled consonants

23. Sounds in the production of which the soft palate is lowered, and the air escapes through the lungs are called… 

a) semi-vowels

b) sonorant

c) constrictive

d) nasal

24. The movements and positions necessary for the production of a speech sound constitute its…

a) transmission through the air

b) articulation

c) hearing

d) the formation of a concept

25. The particular quality of Vs mainly depends on the volume and shape of the …

a) vocal cords

b) mouth resonator

c) nasal cavity

d) tongue

26. Complex sounds which consist of two components that correspond to two phases of articulation- an oral- stop phases followed with a short friction phase- are called…

a) occlusive

b) constrictive

c) trilled 

d) affricates

27. A monophthong, half-long, lax, unrounded, front, low vowel phoneme of wide variety

a) æ

b) e

c) i:

d) u:

28. A labial, labio-dental, constrictive, fricative, voiceless, fortis consonant phoneme

a) l

b) s

c) f

d) v

29. A glottal, constrictive, fricative, voiceless, fortis consonant phoneme…

a) h

b) f

c) s

d) ð

30. Phoneme can be discovered by the method of 

a) direct observation

b) minimal pairs

c) semantic 

d) distribution

31. Realizations f phonemes in definite positions in words are called …

a) speech sounds

b) monophthongs

c) morphemes

d) allophones 


32. How many consonant phonemes are in RP?

a) 22

b) 24

c) 19

d) 20


33. How many vowel phonemes are in RP?

a) 22

b) 24

c) 19

d) 20

34. The founder of the phoneme theory is …

a) I.O. Baudouin de Courtenay

b) Ferdinand de Saussure 

c) Lev Volodymyrovych Ščerba

d) Daniel Jones

35. The materialistic conception of the phoneme was originated by …

a) I.O. Baudouin de Courtenay

b) Ferdinand de Saussure 

c) Lev Volodymyrovych Ščerba

d) Daniel Jones

36. Allophones that are free from the influence of the neighbouring sounds and are most representative of the phoneme as a whole are called …

a) subsidiary variants

b) principal variants

c) stressed sounds

d) combinatory allophones

37. The phoneme is material, real and objective because it really exists in the material form of …

a) speech sound

b) morpheme

c) word

d) allophone

38. Allophones which appear as a result of the influence of the neighbouring speech sounds (assimilation, adaptation, accommodation) are called…

a) subsidiary variants

b) principal variants

c) stressed sounds

d) combinatory allophones


39. What is the principal function of the phoneme?

a) significant

b) word-building

c) distinctive

d) functional

40. The articulatory features which do not serve to distinguish meaning are called…

a) non-distinctive

b) significant

c) word-building

d) distinctive

41. Modification of a consonant under the influence of a neighbouring consonant are termed…

a) accommodation

b) assimilation

c) elision

d) reduction

42.  Deletion of a sound in rapid or careless speech is termed …

a) accommodation

b) assimilation

c) elision

d) reduction

43. Modifications of a consonant under the influence of the adjacent vowel or vice versa are called…

a) accommodation

b) assimilation

c) elision

d) reduction

44. What type of assimilation occurs in the contractions it’s, that’s?

a) no assimilation

b) regressive

c) double

d) progressive


45. What acoustic cue is most influential perceptually in making a stressed syllable in English?

a) frequency

b) pitch

c) duration

d) intensity


46. How many degrees of word stress are singled out in English?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5


47. What is the force component of intonation made by?

a) sentence stress

b) word stress

c) partial tones

d) speech melody


48. Which tone can encourage further conversation, be wondering, mildly puzzled, soothing?

a) Low Fall

b) High Fall

c) Low Rise

d) High Rise


49. What is the core component of intonation?

a) frequency

b) pitch

c) duration

d) intensity


50. Which tone is highly implicatory in English?

a) Low Fall

b) High Fall

c) Low Rise

d) Fall-Rise

51. The articulatory features which do not serve to distinguish meaning are called…

a. non-distinctive

b. significant

c. word-building

d. distinctive
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