Worksheetsфонетика 2
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 27mins
What obstructer mechanism responsible for?
For the production of vowels
For the production in consonant
For the production of sonorant only
For the production of all the sounds
What functions does Intonation perform?
Identificatory, rhythmic, fixed
Constitute, distinctive, recognitive
Rhythmical and accentual
Constitutive, recessive, retentive
The first stressed word in a intonation group is:
The nucleus
The scale
The head
The pre-head
The last stressed word in a intonation group is:
The tail
The scale
The unnucleus
The head
What directions of assimilation do you know?
Progressive, reciprocal and regressive
Double, regressive
Regressive, reciprocal
Progressive, reciprocal
What branch of phonetics studies the functional aspect of speech sounds?
Comparative phonetics
General phonetics
Acoustic phonetics
Phonology
Modification of consonants under the influence of vowels is called:
Lateral plosion
Assimilation
Accommodation
Elision
What type is the syllable “no”?
Covered,open
Uncovered,open
Covered,close
Close,covered
What is the unit of Phonetics?
Minimal pairs
instinctive speech sound
Phoneme
Allophone
Sonority theory of the syllable was put forward by:
L.A.Vassiliev
L.V.Shcherba
N.I.Linkin
O.Yesperson
What resonator mechanism is responsible for the articulation of vowels?
Unusually resonator
Nasal resonator
Resonator mechanisms are not responsible for it
Resonator mechanisms with nasal resonator
Pronunciation of a syllable in a word on different pitch levels and with different pitch directions is called:
Qualitative
Dynamic
Quantitative
Lyrical
What are the English nasal consonants?
[g], [p], [l]
[p], [b], [d], [t], [k]
[m], [p], [d]
[m], [n], [η]
The origin of the word ‘…’ is a Greek ‘phona’
Acoustics
A sound and a voice
A sonorant
Articulation
Phonemic awareness is:
A strong predictor of future reading success
All in the above
A sub skill of phonological awareness
A foundation reading skill
There are _______ sounds in the English language:
More than 70
More than 40
Exactly 60
More than 80
Phoneme blending is:
harder than onset and rime
easier than syllable blending
easier than identifying rhyming words
easier than phoneme addition, deletion, or substitution
The definition of phoneme is, "The smallest part of _________ language."
All of this
Spoken
Nonformal
Formal
The onset sound(s) is the:
the vowel sound
last sound of a syllable
sounds before the vowel in a syllable
any following consonant sounds at the end of a syllable
The word “eight” has how many phonemes?
7
2
5
4
Phonological awareness is:
a person’s ability to hear sound structures of speech
all in the above
a person’s ability to manipulate sound structures of speech
a print free skill set
How are phonemes represented in writing to differentiate them from actual words?
by placing the letters between percent signs %b%
I’m by placing the letters between asterisks b
by placing the letters in slashes /b/
by placing the letters of parentheses (b)
How many syllables do you hear in the word “submerges”?
4
1
5
3
Which of the following is an example of phoneme segmentation?
a child telling his teacher that the last sound cup is /p/
a child sounding out a known word ("/b/ /e/ /s/ /t/ ... best")
a child telling his teacher that the first sound run is /r/
a child telling his teacher there are four sounds in truck, /t/ /r/ /u/ /ck/
According to the force of articulation at the end of the vowel English vowels are subdivided into:
free & checked
rounded & unrounded
tense & lax
monophthongs& diphthongs
What comprises all the movements and positions of the speech?
Frequency of tone
Tone of speech
Articulation
Melody of song
Sound production means ….
Tone of speech
Phonation
Frequency of tone
Melody of song
Number of vibrations per second is called…
Melody of song
Frequency of tone
Tone of speech
Frequency
Syllables, accentual units, intonation groups, utterances are…
segmental, prosodic features
monosegmental units
segmental units
supra-segmental units
Sounds, vowels and consonants are…
Supra unit
Prosodic features
Polymental units
Segmental unit
The phonetic system of a language contains two systems (levels)
High broad
Low narrow,low broad
Segmental and Supra-segmental
Mid narrow,mid broad
What is articulation?
segmental units
branches of phonetics
it comprises all the movements and positions in the speech
to differentiate units of other subsystems
What is the function of segmental and suprasegmental systems?
segmental units
to differentiate units in other subsystems
branches of phonetics
positions of the speech
p, t, f, k, s, ᶴ, Ө, ʧ] consonants are…
Long sound vowels
Unrounded sounds
Voiced consonants
Voiceless consonants
[b, d, v, g, z, ɜ, ð, ʤ] consonants are…
voiced consonants
unrounded sounds
voiceless consonants
long sound vowels
Sounds [i:, a:, o:, u:, ə:] are…
voiceless consonants
long sound and vowels
voiced consonants
rounded sounds
Short sounds [i, o, e, u, ə, ǽ] are…
voiced consonants
long sound vowels
rounded sounds
short sound vowels
Sounds [I, i:, e, ǽ, ə, ə:] are…
long sound vowels
unrounded sounds
voiceless consonants
voiced consonants
Sounds [o, o:, u, u:] are…
voiceless consonants
unrounded sounds
voiced consonants
long sound vowels
Sounds [i, u] are…
voiced consonant
voiceless consonant
high-broad sounds
long sound vowel
Sounds [i:, u:] are…
long sound vowel
voiced consonant
rounded sound
high-narrow sounds
Choose the correct answer: Where are you from?
I am from Edinburgh
Yes,she can
No,she can’t
He isn’t student
Choose the correct answer: Are you on holiday?
We like children
You are builders
No,we aren’t.We are on business
He is my brother
Choose the correct answer: Is she a manager?
1 hour
No,she isn’t
12 month
4weeks
Find a superfluous word: Football, piano, violin, guitar, cello .
Piano
Football
Violin
Guitar
Find the plural form of the word “tooth”
Teeth
Book
Door
Boot
Choose the right opposite word: “cold”
Plan
Main
Mean
Warm
Choose the right opposite word: “health”
Wide
Sick,ill
Nice
Mean
Choose the sentence with modal verb:
We go to gym every day
The children play piano
My brother can play piano since 2012.
I will visit my friend
Choose the sentence with modal verb:
He is a businessman
You are my best friend.
I live here.
I can’t stay here any more!
Find Present Simple
Students will go to university
She cooked dinner
He had friends
Sandra doesn’t play tennis
Choose correct variant: Are you going to have a holiday _______
Like
This summer?
Look
Save
Choose correct form: They like clothes which _____.
Here
Hen
Hat
Have a bright color
