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The meaning of the Greek origin word “phonetics” is…
social
“ fo:ne “ (fo:ne:) meaning sound, voice
phonetic
articulatory
What are the objects of phonetic investigation?
phonemes
auditory
theoretical
extrimental
Special phonetics is subdivided into _____and phonetics
pronunciation/vocabulary
noise/voiceless
experimental/objective
experimental/theoretical
What branches of phonetics are considered to be as methods of investigation?
social
experimental, articulatory, acoustic, auditory phonetics
frecuency
certain
Phonology is concerned with the functions of different phonetic phenomena
duration
auditory
phonema
social
Speech sounds, syllabic structure of words, word stress and intonation are components of system of English
phonetic
lingual
different
allophonic
aspect is the way when the sound-producing mechanism is investigated
objective
articulatory
phonetic
experimental
Acoustically each sound is characterized by
pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar
Experimental, objective
frecuency, certain, duration
Received Pronunciation (RP)
___is the sound perception aspect
pronunciation
auditory
aspect
phonetic
method is based upon the use of special apparatus or instruments
Experimental/ objective
Frecuency/certain
Pronunciation/ vocabulary
Experimental/ theoretical
According to national language is a historical category evolving from conditions of economic and political concentration
A.D. Schweither
V.D. Arakin
V.A.Vassiliyev
M.A. Sokolova
Dialects are distinguished from each other by differences in
pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar
Experimental/ objective
frecuency, certain, duration
allophonic variations
types of English are spoken in the English-speaking world?
Welsh English
British English, American English
Canadian English
Australian English
What variants of English are referred to the American-based group?
Welsh English
Australian English
British English, American English
New Zealand English
Who is the author of the first edition of English Pronouncing Dictionary?
A.C. Gimson
J.C. Wells
J.A. Dubovsky
Daniel Jones
In the nineteenth century was a social marker, a prestige accent of an Englishman
Received Pronunciation(RP)
Public School pronunciation(PSP)
King's English
School pronunciation
How are major classes of sounds traditionally distinguished by phoneticians in any language?
voiced sounds
consonants and vowels
voiceless sounds
noise and sonorants
18.<question>In case of no obstruction is made
lingual
consonant
voiced sounds
vowels
In case of no obstruction is made
sonorants
noise
lingual
voiceless sounds
According to V.A.Vassiliyev there are two large classes of consonants
lingual
noise and sonorants
consonants and vowels
frecuency, certain
Noise consonants are divided into
voiceless sounds
noise and sonorants
plosive consonants (or stops) and affricates
voiced sounds
In production of the air passage between the two organs of speech is fairly wide
lingual
voiceless
sonorants
auditory
Fore lingual, medio lingual and back lingual consonants are the class of
noise
artifactes
cosonants
lingual
Voiced consonants (ұяң, звонкие) are:
b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z
p,t,f,k,s,h
m,n,ŋ
Point out the voiceless consonants(қатаң, глухие):
ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th
b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z
m, n, ŋ
Point out the the nasal occlusive sonorants: [m], [n] and [ŋ]
b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z
[m], [n] and [ŋ]
ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th
Point out the the fricative(ызың, щелевой) consonants:
b,d,g,l,r,m,n,z
ch,f,k,p,s,sh,t,th
θ, ð, ʃ, ʒ
eight
When the change in the tongue position is fairly weak the English vowels are subdivided into:
short and long vowels
voiced and voiceless
consonants and vowels
experimental and theoretical
British phonetician distinguishes vocalic phonemes in English
Daniel Jones, eight
A.D. Schweither
M. Jackson
Justen Baber
Identify the word that contains the sound /ə:/
bird
bread
breack
brown
Allophones are the variants of the same phoneme
different
difficult
darkness
movie
What variant does an English phoneme [d] present in words like door, darn
is the voiced dental plosive
meaning between words
short and long vowels
noise and sonorants
Monophthongs are pure sounds with unchanging articulation
vowel, stable
voice, round
move=movie
distinguish, between words
According to the position of the lips vowels may be
rounded or spread
affixes or suffixes
vowel or stable
three or move
What function does the phenome perfome as functional unit?
distinctive function
rounded
spelling
eclipse
Every speech-sound pronunced in isolation has _ stages of articulation
three
four
two
six
The initial stage (the on-glide) when speech organs to the position of articulation
move
voice
vowel
sounds
What type of sound combination is the word- me?
a combination of a consonant and a vowel (CV transition):[mi:]
a combination of a vowel and a consonant (VC transition):[mi:]
a combination of two consonants (CC transition):[mi:]
a combination of two vowels (VV transition):[mi:]
The variations of articulation stages result in their or .
merging or interpenetration (combining)
rounded or spread
short or long
dental or plosive
Sound modifications are of speech sounds
allophonic variations
different
dental plosive
vowel sounds
Adaptive modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant within a speech chain is .
assimilation
alveolar
nazal
sound
is the adaptive modification of a consonant under the influence of a neighbouring vowel
Accommodation
Assimilation
paralization
labialization
is a complete loss of sound in the word structure in connected
Elision
Experimental
theoretical
social
_is a process of sound addition to the word structure
Insertion
Elision
Social
Deletion
What is reduction?
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.
The author of the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary is Daniel Jones.
Qualitative reduction is the loss of _
vowel quality
voice quality
phonema
consonant
Synonym of vowel elision is _
zero reducation
tempo
rhythm
Who was expiratory theory based by?
R.H. Stetson
A.M. Bell
D. Jones
A.D. Schweither
Syllable formation in English is based on the opposition _
vowel vs. consonant
syllable is consonants
particular language
Open syllables end in a phoneme
vowel
consonant
nucles
quality
Closed syllables end in a _ phoneme
consonant
vowel
nucles
quality
M.A. Sokolova, V.D. Arakin and other linguists define types of syllables
four
five
six
eight
The is the peak of the syllable
nucleus
quantative
contract
defenition
The number of syllables in English words can vary __
1 to 8
2 to 8
1 to 5
3 to 6
The rules of syllable division are studied by a special branch of phonetics
phonotactics
patterns
solo
DNA
The theory of muscular tension was stated by __
L.V. Shcherba
A. Melville Bell
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Who investigated the acoustic level of the syllable in the sonority theory?
O. Jespersen
M.A. Sokolova
V.D. Arakin
Find the word with fully open syllables (V type)
fully open syllables, which consist of a vowel sound only (V type): are [a:], or [o:], I [aı]
BCB
HD
Coda
Consonants preceding the nucleus make up the _
syllable onset(beginning)
syllable coda
syllable admits
Consonants following the nucleus make up the _
syllable coda
syllable onest
syllable admits
The combination of the nucleus and the coda makes up the _ of a syllable
rhyming property
word stress
combination
fixed
What stages of articulation has a speech sound in isolated position?
three
four
eight
twelve
H. Sweet stated that stress is connected with the __
force of breath
force of articulation
tone
unstressed
What is characteristic of the Japanese, Korean and other oriental languages?
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.
force of articulation
fixed
weaker
The word stress in English as well as in Russian is
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.
fixed
I don't no
Unstressed syllables are supposed to have stress.
weak
word
function
function of word stress enables a person to identify a definite accentual pattern of a word
identificatory (or recognitive)
waer
tempo
Word stress alone is capable of differentiating the meaning of words or their forms, thus performing its function
distinctive
rhyming property
syllable coda
[ '_' ' ], ['_' ' '_]-These accentual types are met in initial
compound abbreviations
compound words
separable prefixes
_worked out the grammatical approach to the study of intonation
M. Halliday
G.A. Zolotov
O. Jespersen
The falling tone of any level and range expresses
certainty, completeness, and independence
incompletion or continuation
A rising tone expresses _
uncertainty, incompleteness or dependence
certainty, completeness, and independence
The term tempo implies the rate of the _
utterance and pausation
rate of speech
uncertainty, incompleteness or dependence
The _ of speech can be normal, slow and fast
rate
voice
consonant
estabilashed
