… studies the way in which the air vibrates between the speaker's mouth and the listener's ear.

The branch of phonetics investigating the hearing process is known as _____ .

Connotational meaning includes ______ .

Speech sounds are traditionally divided into 2 large groups. They are:

Which of the following consonants is not voiced?

Which type of consonants cannot exist?

The 2 large oppositional classes of consonants in English are _______ consonants.

Every phoneme can be modified in speech. Among different modifications we can distinguish:

This phonemic modification occurs due to the individual peculiarities of articulation, e.g. the speaker can mumble, stammer or lisp. This modification of phonemes in speech is called _____ .

This phonemic modification is caused by historical tendencies active in certain localities (i.e. it is noticeable in some local territorial dialects). This modification of phonemes in speech is called ______ .

This phonemic modification is conditioned by phonetic environment. Thus the same phoneme in different environments may be pronounced as [æ] and [ә]. This modification of phonemes in speech is called ____ .

Standard pronunciation adopted by native speakers as the right and proper way of speaking is called _____ .

The abbreviation 'RP' is used instead of the words ____ .

Received Pronunciation is the phonetic norm of _____ .

Dialects are _____ .

_____ is one of the most well-known dialects in Britain; it can be heard in Newcastle.

_______ is a dialect spoken by the less educated part of Londoners.

Which of the following dialects is not spoken on the territory of the UK?

How is the word 'vase' pronounced in American English?

In which variant of pronunciation is 't' voiced between vowels?

What stress pattern do monosyllabic words have?

This kind of stress is achieved by a greater force of articulation, which results in greater loudness, i.e. the stressed syllables are louder than the unstressed ones. What word stress type is it?

Another name for musical word stress is ______ .

Such languages as Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese have _____ word-stress.

In languages with the ______ word stress the effect of stress is mainly based on the quantity of the sound, i.e. its duration. In such languages vowels in the stressed syllables are longer than in the unstressed ones.

The Russian language is considered to have the ______ word stress.

The English language is known to have the _______ word stress.

The German language is considered to have the ______ word stress.

Which of the following languages has the tonic word-stress?

Say how many syllables are there in the word 'table':

A semivowel is __________ .

Consonant sounds that are made with the tongue placed near or against the teeth are called ______ .

According to the so-called _______ offered by R.H. Stetson, every pronounced syllable corresponds to a single expiration.

Choose in which variant there is incorrect syllable division.

Which of the following is a language?

_______ is regarded in linguistics as a distinct variety of a language or linguistic expression. It encompasses both standard and nonstandard varieties and their subcategories.

_________ is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.

_________ is a language variety specific to an ethnic group. It marks speakers as part of specific ethnic groups or communities.

_________ is the distinctive speech of an individual, a linguistic pattern regarded as unique among speakers of a person's language or dialect.

Another name for Mexican-American English is _________ .

English in America is _____ .

In the USA three main types of cultivated speech are recognized. They are ______.

Canadian English and American English are sometimes grouped together as _____ .

Which of the following is a language?

Which of the following writers did not write in English?

Which of the following is a Canadianism?

Which of the following words is an Americanism?

Find an Americanism among the following words:

Which of the following is the most common pronunciation of the word 'Asia' in General American?