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Where do the earliest linguistic models come from, inspiring the current linguistic research?

• We don’t have a clear idea about it, we ignore the origins.

• The models com from the Greek and Roman works.

• They started in the Englightment, related to new racionalistic mindset.

What is the main Descriptive Linguistic approach?

• The diachronic and synchronic study of languages.

• The vindication of European national languages.

• The claim that Language studies would be paramount in every level of education.

Tell some of the reasons why Phonetics enjoys a greater independence than other fields of Linguistics.

• Because it needs a very specific budged assignement.

• Because keeps a dialogue with hard sciencists every now and again.

• Because it depends on data, instruments of analysis and scales of measurement.

What is the major difference between Phonetics and Phonology?

• Phonetics studies phonic substance itself, while the latter studies the selection and organization of phonic substance into a specific language.

• Phonetics stems from a broader scientific background than Phonology.

•  There is no a real difference, we use one term or another depending on academic circumstances, but both of them are the same discipline: the scientific study of spoken Language.

Chose the rigtht statement in relation to the production of consonants.

•  The airstream is never disturbed by the constriction above the larynx.

• The airstream always has the company of vocal cord vibration.

• The airstream is disturbed by the constriction at a point above the larynx, with or without the company of vocal cord vibration.

What are the causes of the variation of quality or timbre of the glottal tone?

• The mouth and the nasal cavities.

• The pharynx.

• The mouth, the nasal cavities and the pharynx.

The impression of greater loudness in spoken Languages originates.

• Because of the increasing of air pressure from the lungs.

• Because of a special hypersensitivity in the listener.

• Because of vocal cord stress, sometimes caused by psychological reasons.

The Old English period is marked

• By the Roman heritage.

•  By the invasions of Germanic people, as well as the Scandinavian and, finally, the Normans.

• By the birth of a rich Anglo-Saxon literature cultivated in castles and monasteries.

What was the reason why educational system decided to recover teaching methods employing again the long- missed phonic approach?

• Because by the 1980s, it was found that the standard of children’s reading in England was dropping.

• Because the phonic approach helps better understand complex statements.

• Because Language studies at universities deeply afected the British schools curriculum.

A classical method to learn the letters of the alphabet is the alphabet song. The main reason for resorting to it is:

• You don’t need much technical support.

•  It is a funny way to know language.

• Is one of the best ways to teach both letter names and letter sounds together.