1. the branch of phonetics that studies the way in which the air vibrates between the speaker’s mouth and the listener’s ear is:
a) acoustic phonetics;
b) auditory phonetics;
c) articulatory phonetics.
2. individual sounds of speech refer to:
a) segmental phonetics;
b) suprasegmental phonetics.
3. speaker’s individuality, temporal provenance, social provenance, sex, age belong to:
a) phonetic style-forming factors;
b) incidental, concomitant features of the extralinguistic situation.
4. the phenomenon of hesitation is observed mostly in:
a) prepared speech;
b) spontanious speech.
5. the term “phoneme” is used to mean “sound”:
a) in its contrastive sense;
b) to describe sounds which are variants of a phoneme.
6. the principal allophones of the phoneme:
a) do not undergo any distinguishable changes in the chain of speech; b) occur under the influence of the neighbouring sounds in different phonemic situations.
7. the invariant of the phoneme considers such articulatory features that:
a) can be changed without affecting the meaning;
b) can not be changed without affecting the meaning.
8. the pronunciation error is called phonetic if:
a) an allophone of the same phoneme is replaced by an allophone of a different phoneme;
b) an allophone of the phoneme is replaced by another allophone of the same phoneme.
9. the narrow or allophonic transcription suggests:
a) special symbols for all the phonemes of a language;
b) special symbols including some information about articulatory activity of particular allophonic features.
10. the “mentalistic” or “psychological” phoneme theory was originated by:
a) d. jones and l. bloomfield;
b) n. trubetskoy, r. jacobson and m. halle;
c) i. a. baudain de courtenay.
11. in modern russian linguistic the following conception of phoneme is adopted:
a) “functional”;
b) “mentalistic” or “psychological”;
c) “abstract”
d) “physical”
e) “materialistic”.
12. the phonemes are to be said in contrastive distribution if:
a) they occur in different positions and never occur in the same phonetic context;
b) they occur in the same phonetic context.
13. russian linguists widely use the following method of phonological analysis:
a) semantic;
b) distributional.
14. the term “accomodation” is used by linguists to denote the interchange of :
a) “vowel + consonant” type;
b) “consonant + consonant” type.
15. loss of plosion is a result of:
a) the manner of articulation assimilation;
b) the lip position accomodation;
c) the position of the soft palate accomodation.
16. the problem of vowels in unstressed position is important for:
a) the russian language;
b) the english language;
c) the both.
17. grammatical forms of words and lexical units are distinguished by:
a) historical sound alternations;
b) stylistic sound modifications.
18. careful articulation and relatively low speed are the features of:
a) informal speech;
b) formal speech.
19. the theory of muscular tension was introduced by:
a) o. jespersen;
b) v. a. vassilyev;
c) l. v. shcherba;
d) r. h. stetson.
20. the majority of linguists treat the syllable as:
a) a purely articulatory unit;
b) the smallest pronounceable unit which can reveal some linguistic function.
21. the structure of the syllable in english is mostly:
a) open;
b) closed.
22. english word stress is a phenomenon, marked by the variations of:
a) force and pitch;
b) quantity and quality;
c) all these factors.
23. in english word stress is:
a) free;
b) fixed.
24. two equal stresses are typical for:
a) english;
b) russian.
25. the terms of which level are more suitable for the aims of teaching:
a) of the acoustic level;
b) of the auditory level.
26. the nucleus of an intonation pattern is formed by:
a) all the stressed syllables of this pattern;
b) the last strongly accented syllable of this pattern;
c) the last two accented syllable of this pattern.
27. the falling tone is common for:
a) orders and commands;
b) general questions;
c) requests.
28. all the sections of the intonation pattern differentiate only:
a) grammatical meaning;
b) lexical meaning;
c) emotional meaning.
29. the initial unstressed syllables preceding the prosodic nucleus are called:
a) proclitics;
b) enclitics.
30. pauses of perception are:
a) a silent stop on the phonation;
b) a sharp change of pitch direction
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