The type of English pronunciation accepted as the teaching norm in our country

 

 

• Received Pronunciation

• Scottish Standard English

• General American

• Cockney

The formation of nouns through prefixes in English

• Is not widely used

• Is highly productive

• Is common in technical terms

• Is reserved for compound words

Words that sound the same but have no common meaning (sem) or associative connection are called

• Lexical homonyms

• Homophones

• Synonyms

• Antonyms

The unambiguous prefix out- has the meaning of

• Superiority

• Quantity

• Location

• Time

The opposition of the words old — middle-aged — young forms a(n) opposition:

• Gradual

• Complementary

• Contradictory

• Antonymous

The primary structural unit of language that serves to name objects, properties, phenomena, and relations, and possesses a set of semantic, phonetic, and grammatical features is called:

• A word

• A morpheme

• A phrase

• A sentence

The main source of polysemy is:

• A change in the semantic structure of a word

• Borrowing of words from other languages

• Syntactic changes in sentence structure

• Phonetic shifts in pronunciation

The main types of synonymy are:

• Ideographic, stylistic, and absolute

• Grammatical, lexical, and syntactic

• Derivational, morphological, and phonetic

• Active, passive, and neutral

140. The relations of mutual opposition in the system of language between units of the same level, connected by meaning, are called

• Paradigmatic relations

• Syntagmatic relations

• Synonymic relations

• Collocational relations

Descriptive, or synchronic, lexicology deals with:

• The study of the regularities of the functioning of the lexicosemantic system of language within a specific period

• The history of words and their origin

• The syntactic structures of sentences

• The phonological patterns of a language