Test on Phonetics 1

What does phonetics study? It studies…

• meaningful units of a language

• articulatory acoustic features of a language

• human ability to speak

• grammatical structure of a language

What is phonetics connected with? It is connected with…

• economics and business

• sports

• physics, biology, and other branches of linguistics

• philosophy

How is phonetics connected with physics?

• Speech sound are spread into air in the form of sound waves

• Speech sounds consist of smallest atoms

• They make up electricity

• Speech sound are not connected with physics

How is phonetics connected with biology?

• Phonetics forms the human body

• Phonetics consists of organs of speech

• Phonetics is not connected with biology

• Phonetics is connected with biology, because speech sounds

               are formed with the help of organs of speech

What branches of phonetics do you know?

• Special, descriptive and historical phonetics, general    phonetics and comparative phonetics.

• Active and passive phonetics

• Linguistic and non – linguistic phonetics

• Prosodic and non – prosodic phonetics

What are the methods of phonetic investigation?

• Psychological and pedagogical methods

• Medical and biological methods

• Direct observation method, linguistic method and

                experimental method

• Physical and biological methods

What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?

• Phonetics study medicine and phonology studies the human body.

• Phonetics studies the articulation and classification of speech sounds, while phonology studies the distinctive function of speech sounds.

• Phonetics studies only vowels and phonology studies only consonants of a language

• Phonetics and phonology mean one and the same thing

Who was the founder of the phoneme theory in linguistics?

• I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay

• L.V. Sherba

• N.S. Trubetskoy

• D. Jones

Who is the founder of the Prague phonological school?

• L.V. Shcherba

• A.A Reformatsky

• L.R. Zinder

• N.S. Trubetskoy

What types of assimilation do you know?

• Historical and living; progressive and regressive; complete and partial.

• Special and descriptive; progressive and regressive; comparative and universal

• Historical and living; special and descriptive; comparative and universal

• Historic and synchronic