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Total questions: 74

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1.

The meaning of the Greek origin word “phonetics” is…

a)

social

b)

“ fo:ne “ (fo:ne:) meaning sound, voice

c)

phonetic

d)

articulatory

2.

What are the objects of phonetic investigation?

a)

phonemes

b)

auditory

c)

theoretical

d)

extrimental

3.

Special phonetics is subdivided into _____and            phonetics

a)

pronunciation/vocabulary

b)

noise/voiceless

c)

experimental/objective

d)

experimental/theoretical

4.

What branches of phonetics are considered to be as methods of investigation?

a)

social

b)

experimental, articulatory, acoustic, auditory phonetics

c)

frecuency

d)

certain

5.

Phonology is concerned with the     functions of different phonetic phenomena

a)

duration

b)

auditory

c)

phonema

d)

social

6.

Speech sounds, syllabic structure of words, word stress and intonation are components of     system of English

a)

phonetic

b)

lingual

c)

different

d)

allophonic

7.

       aspect is the way when the sound-producing mechanism is investigated

a)

objective

b)

articulatory

c)

phonetic

d)

experimental

8.

Acoustically each sound is characterized by

a)

pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar

b)

Experimental, objective

c)

frecuency, certain, duration

d)

Received Pronunciation (RP)

9.

___is the sound perception aspect

a)

pronunciation

b)

auditory

c)

aspect

d)

phonetic

10.

method is based upon the use of special apparatus or instruments

a)

Experimental/ objective  

b)

Frecuency/certain

c)

Pronunciation/ vocabulary

d)

Experimental/ theoretical

11.

According to national language is a historical category evolving from conditions of economic and political concentration

a)

A.D. Schweither

b)

V.D. Arakin

c)

V.A.Vassiliyev

d)

M.A. Sokolova

12.

Dialects are distinguished from each other by differences in

a)

pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar

b)

Experimental/ objective  

c)

frecuency, certain, duration

d)

allophonic variations

13.

types of English are spoken in the English-speaking world?

a)

Welsh English

b)

British English, American English

c)

Canadian English

d)

Australian English

14.

What variants of English are referred to the American-based group?

a)

Welsh English

b)

Australian English

c)

British English, American English

d)

New Zealand English

15.

Who is the author of  the first edition of  English Pronouncing Dictionary?

a)

A.C. Gimson

b)

J.C. Wells

c)

J.A. Dubovsky

d)

Daniel Jones

16.

In the nineteenth century         was a social marker, a prestige accent of an Englishman

a)

Received Pronunciation(RP)

b)

Public School pronunciation(PSP)

c)

King's English

d)

School pronunciation

17.

How are major classes of sounds traditionally distinguished by phoneticians in any language?

a)

voiced sounds

b)

consonants and vowels

c)

voiceless sounds

d)

noise and sonorants

18.

                                                                                                        

18.<question>In case of    no obstruction is made

a)

lingual

b)

consonant

c)

voiced sounds

d)

vowels

19.

In case of     no obstruction is made

a)

sonorants

b)

noise

c)

lingual

d)

voiceless sounds

20.

According to V.A.Vassiliyev there are two large classes of consonants

a)

lingual

b)

noise and sonorants

c)

consonants and vowels

d)

frecuency, certain

21.

Noise consonants are divided into

a)

voiceless sounds

b)

noise and sonorants

c)

plosive consonants (or stops) and affricates

d)

voiced sounds

22.

In production of    the air passage between the two organs of speech is fairly wide

a)

lingual

b)

voiceless

c)

sonorants

d)

auditory

23.

Fore lingual, medio lingual and  back lingual consonants are the class of

a)

noise

b)

artifactes

c)

cosonants

d)

lingual

24.

Voiced consonants (ұяң, звонкие) are:

a)

b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z

b)

p,t,f,k,s,h

c)

m,n,ŋ

25.

Point out the voiceless consonants(қатаң, глухие):

a)

ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th

b)

b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z

c)

m, n, ŋ

26.

Point out the the nasal occlusive sonorants:  [m], [n] and [ŋ]

a)

b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z

b)

[m], [n] and [ŋ]

c)

ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th

27.

Point out the the fricative(ызың, щелевой) consonants:

a)

b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z

b)

ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th

c)

θ, ð, ʃ, ʒ

d)

eight

28.

When the change in the tongue position is fairly weak the English vowels are subdivided into:

a)

short and long vowels

b)

voiced and voiceless

c)

consonants and vowels

d)

experimental and theoretical

29.

British phonetician    distinguishes    vocalic phonemes  in  English

a)

Daniel Jones, eight

b)

A.D. Schweither

c)

M. Jackson

d)

Justen Baber

30.

Identify the word that contains the sound /ə:/

a)

bird

b)

bread

c)

breack

d)

brown

31.

Allophones are the   variants of the same phoneme

a)

different

b)

difficult

c)

darkness

d)

movie

32.

What variant does an English phoneme [d] present in words like door, darn

a)

is the voiced dental plosive

b)

meaning between words

c)

short and long vowels

d)

noise and sonorants

33.

Monophthongs  are pure     sounds with     unchanging articulation

a)

vowel, stable

b)

voice, round

c)

move=movie

d)

distinguish, between words

34.

According to the position of the lips vowels may be

a)

rounded or spread

b)

affixes or suffixes

c)

vowel or stable

d)

three or move

35.

What function does the phenome perfome as functional unit?

a)

distinctive function

b)

rounded

c)

spelling

d)

eclipse

36.

Every speech-sound pronunced in isolation has _ stages of articulation

a)

three

b)

four

c)

two

d)

six

37.

The initial stage (the on-glide) when speech organs to the position of articulation

a)

move

b)

voice

c)

vowel

d)

sounds

38.

What type of sound combination is the word- me?

a)

a combination of a consonant and a vowel (CV transition):[mi:]

b)

a combination of a vowel and a consonant (VC transition):[mi:]

c)

a combination of two consonants (CC transition):[mi:]

d)

a combination of two vowels (VV transition):[mi:]

39.

The variations of articulation stages result in their  or  . 

a)

merging or interpenetration (combining)

b)

rounded or spread

c)

short or long

d)

dental or plosive

40.

Sound modifications are    of speech sounds

a)

allophonic variations

b)

different

c)

dental plosive

d)

vowel sounds

41.

Adaptive modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant within a speech chain is   .

a)

assimilation

b)

alveolar

c)

nazal

d)

sound

42.

  is the adaptive modification of a consonant under the influence of a neighbouring vowel

a)

Accommodation

b)

Assimilation

c)

paralization

d)

labialization

43.

  is a complete loss of sound in the word structure in connected

a)

Elision

b)

Experimental

c)

theoretical

d)

social

44.

_is a process of sound addition to the word structure

a)

Insertion

b)

Elision

c)

Social

d)

Deletion

45.

What is reduction?

a)

Reduction is the weakening of vowels in unstressed positions, determined by the position of a vowel, the stress structure of a word or the tempo of speech.

b)

The author of the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary is Daniel Jones.

46.

Qualitative reduction is the loss of _

a)

vowel quality

b)

voice quality

c)

phonema

d)

consonant

47.

Synonym of vowel elision is _

a)

zero reducation

b)

tempo

c)

rhythm

48.

Who was expiratory theory  based by?

a)

R.H. Stetson

b)

A.M. Bell

c)

D. Jones

d)

A.D. Schweither

49.

Syllable formation in English is based on the opposition _

a)

vowel vs. consonant

b)

syllable is consonants

c)

particular language

50.

Open syllables end in a    phoneme

a)

vowel

b)

consonant

c)

nucles

d)

quality

51.

Closed syllables end in a _ phoneme

a)

consonant

b)

vowel

c)

nucles

d)

quality

52.

M.A. Sokolova, V.D. Arakin and other linguists define    types of syllables

a)

four

b)

five

c)

six

d)

eight

53.

The  is the peak of the syllable

a)

nucleus

b)

quantative

c)

contract

d)

defenition

54.

The number of syllables in English words can vary __

a)

1 to 8

b)

2 to 8

c)

1 to 5

d)

3 to 6

55.

The rules of syllable division are studied by a special branch of phonetics

a)

phonotactics

b)

patterns

c)

solo

d)

DNA

56.

The theory of muscular tension was stated by __

a)

L.V. Shcherba

b)

A. Melville Bell

c)

Nikolai Trubetzkoy

57.

Who investigated the acoustic level of the syllable in the sonority theory?   

a)

O. Jespersen

b)

M.A. Sokolova

c)

V.D. Arakin

58.

Find the word with fully open syllables (V type)

a)

fully open syllables, which consist of a vowel sound only (V type): are [a:], or [o:], I [aı]

b)

BCB

c)

HD

d)

Coda

59.

Consonants preceding the nucleus make up the _

a)

syllable onset(beginning)

b)

syllable coda

c)

syllable admits

60.

Consonants following the nucleus make up the _

a)

syllable coda

b)

syllable onest

c)

syllable admits

61.

The combination of the nucleus and the coda makes up the _ of a syllable

a)

rhyming property

b)

word stress

c)

combination

d)

fixed

62.

What stages of articulation has a speech sound in isolated position?

a)

three

b)

four

c)

eight

d)

twelve

63.

H. Sweet stated that stress is connected with the __

a)

force of breath

b)

force of articulation

c)

tone

d)

unstressed

64.

What is characteristic of the Japanese, Korean and other oriental languages?

a)

If special prominence in a stressed syllable is achieved mainly through the change of pitch, or musical tone, such accent is called musical, or tonic. It is characteristic of the Japanese, Korean and other oriental languages.

b)

force of articulation

c)

fixed

d)

weaker

65.

The word stress in English as well as in Russian is   

a)

The word stress in English as well as in Russian is not only free but it may also be shifting, performing the semantic function of differentiating lexical units, parts of speech, grammatical forms.

b)

fixed

c)

I don't no

66.

Unstressed syllables are supposed to have    stress.

a)

weak

b)

word

c)

function

67.

 function of word stress enables a person to identify a definite accentual pattern of a word

a)

identificatory (or recognitive)

b)

waer

c)

tempo

68.

Word stress alone is capable of differentiating the meaning of words or their forms, thus performing its   function

a)

distinctive

b)

rhyming property

c)

syllable coda

69.

[ '_' ' ], ['_' ' '_]-These accentual types are met in initial 

a)

compound abbreviations

b)

compound words

c)

separable prefixes

70.

_worked out the grammatical approach to the study of intonation

a)

M. Halliday

b)

G.A. Zolotov

c)

O. Jespersen

71.

The falling tone of any level and range expresses

a)

certainty, completeness, and independence

b)

incompletion or continuation

72.

A rising tone expresses _

a)

uncertainty, incompleteness or dependence

b)

certainty, completeness, and independence

73.

The term tempo implies the rate of the _

a)

utterance and pausation

b)

rate of speech

c)

uncertainty, incompleteness or dependence

74.

The _ of speech can be normal, slow and fast

a)

rate

b)

voice

c)

consonant

d)

estabilashed