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Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 22mins
What study is articulatory phonetics?
How speech sounds are perceived
How speech sounds are pronounced
How sounds change in history
How sounds are written
How intonation works
What study is perceptual phonetics?
Producing speech sounds
Describing sound articulation
Perceiving speech sounds by the auditory system
Studying sound history
Analyzing spelling rules
In which language are vowels the most tense?
Russian
Kazakh
English
French
German
The definition of the phoneme as a family of sounds was given by:
O. Jespersen
H. Sweet
L. V. Shcherba
M. Halliday
R. H. Stetson
Which phoneme function is considered the most important?
Constitutive
Expressive
Distinctive
Emotional
Stylistic
Which classes of phonemes refer to English vowels?
Stops and fricatives
Sonorants only
Monophthongs, diphthongs, diphthongoids
Plosives and affricates
Consonants
Which of the following are voiced consonants?
[p], [t], [k], [s], [f]
[b], [d], [g], [z], [v]
[h], [θ], [ʃ], [s], [f]
[t], [ʧ], [k], [ʃ], [p]
[m], [n], [ŋ], [l], [r]
Point out the voiceless consonants:
[b], [d], [g], [z], [v]
[m], [n], [ŋ], [l], [r]
[p], [t], [k], [s], [f]
[d], [ʒ], [v], [z], [g]
[w], [j], [r], [l], [m]
Point out the fricative consonants:
[p, b, t, d, k]
[m, n, ŋ, l, r]
[f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, h]
[ʧ, ʤ, t, d, k]
[w, j, r, l, m]
Which class of phonemes does NOT refer to English vowels?
Monophthongs
Diphthongs
Diphthongoids
Reduced vowels
Consonants
What degrees of vowel reduction are distinguished?
Strong and weak
Primary and secondary
Quantitative and qualitative
Long and short
Open and closed
What type of sound combination is the word “reality”?
CV transition
VC transition
CC transition
VV transition
CVC transition
When does the merging process of sounds take place?
When vowels meet
When two different sounds are joined together
When stress changes
When syllables divide
When intonation changes
When does the interpenetration process of sounds take place?
When vowels are reduced
When consonants of similar nature are joined
When stress shifts
When intonation rises
When syllables combine
What are sound modifications in connected speech?
Phonemes
Stress patterns
Allophonic variations
Intonation groups
Sound symbols
Define the type of syllable in the word “teach”.
Open syllable
Covered syllable
Closed syllable
Uncovered syllable
Free syllable
Who was the expiratory theory based by?
H. Sweet
O. Jespersen
R. H. Stetson
L. V. Shcherba
M. Halliday
What opposition is syllable formation in English based on?
Stress vs. tone
Long vs. short
Vowel vs. consonant
Open vs. closed
Strong vs. weak
How many types of sound junction are there in English?
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
What component is the peak of the syllable?
Onset
Coda
Nucleus
Margin
Stress
What branch of phonetics studies rules of syllable division?
Articulatory phonetics
Acoustic phonetics
Phonology
Phonotactics
Lexicology
Who stated the theory of muscular tension?
R. H. Stetson
O. Jespersen
L. V. Shcherba
H. Sweet
M. Halliday
Who investigated the acoustic level of the syllable in the sonority theory?
H. Sweet
L. Bloomfield
O. Jespersen
R. Jakobson
M. Halliday
What type of obstruction is used in articulating [w], [s], [v]?
Complete obstruction
Explosive obstruction
Narrowing (fricative) obstruction
Double obstruction
Lateral obstruction
What intonational style is also called “scientific”?
Declamatory
Conversational
Informational
Emotional
Dramatic
What component do consonants preceding the nucleus make up?
Coda
Margin
Onset
Peak
Stress
What component do consonants following the nucleus make up?
Onset
Nucleus
Coda
Stress
Rhythm
What property of a syllable does the combination of nucleus and coda make up?
Stress
Rhythm
Rhyming
Tempo
Intonation
What stages of articulation does a speech sound in isolation have?
Strong – weak – neutral
Open – closed – free
Initial – medial – final
Loud – soft – silent
Short – long – reduced
What type of obstruction is used when articulating [t], [b], [g]?
Narrowing obstruction
Lateral obstruction
Complete obstruction
Double obstruction
Vibratory obstruction
What is stress connected with according to H. Sweet?
Pitch movement
Length of sounds
Force of breath
Tone variation
Rhythm
How is dynamic stress achieved?
By pitch change
By sound length
By intensity of articulation
By vowel quality
By intonation contour
What is characteristic of Oriental languages?
Dynamic accent
Fixed stress
Musical (tonic) accent
Secondary stress
Weak stress
What type of word stress exists in both English and Russian?
Fixed
Free
Shifting
Musical
Static
What is the obstructer mechanism responsible for?
Producing vowels
Creating rhythm
Forming consonant obstructions
Stress placement
Intonation change
Syllables form language units of greater magnitude. What are they?
Sounds and phonemes
Letters and words
Morphemes, words, phrases
Clauses only
Sentences only
What function of words does word stress alone perform?
Expressive
Emphatic
Distinctive
Stylistic
Emotional
[ ˈ_ _ _ ], [ ˈ_ _ _ _ ] — where are these accentual types met?
Simple words
Compound nouns
Initial compound abbreviations
Loan words
Proper names
Who worked out the grammatical approach to the study of intonation?
H. Sweet
O. Jespersen
M. Halliday
L. V. Shcherba
R. Jakobson
What meaning does a falling tone express?
Surprise
Uncertainty
Certainty and completeness
Dependence
Emotion
What meaning does a rising tone express?
Certainty
Completeness
Uncertainty or dependence
Finality
Command
What does the term tempo imply?
Stress position
Pitch range
Utterance rate and pausation
Sound quality
Loudness
Who first proposed the truly materialistic view of the phoneme?
O. Jespersen
H. Sweet
L. V. Shcherba
M. Halliday
R. H. Stetson
What intonational style is also called “oratorial”?
Conversational
Informational
Declamatory / Publicistic
Scientific
Casual
