English phonetics

WRITTEN EXAM QUESTIONS FROM THEORETICAL PHONETICS: BOOK “ENGLISH PHONETICS” BY ABDUAZIZOV A.


1.What does the term ≪language≫ denote? What is the distinction between the system and the structure of a language?
2. Give the definition of phonetics. Explain the theoretical (scientific) and practical importance of phonetics.
3. What types of phonetics do you know?
4. Explain the work of speech organs.
What is phonetic basis? How do we establish phonetic interference?
5. What aspects of phonetics do we distinguish?
6. How do we define a speech sound from the articulatory point of view?
What instrumental methods are used in the articulatory aspect?
7. What is a speech sound or an utterance from the acoustic point of view?
Explain the instrumental methods used in the acoustic aspect.


8. Explain the perceptual (auditory) aspect. What does the term timbre denote?
9. What does phonological aspect study?
What is the difference between phonological aspect and phonetic aspect?

10. 
    What levels of phonetic and phonological investigation do you know?
    

What does segmental phonology study?
11. What does suprasegmental phonology study?
12.Name the first founders of ≪the phoneme≫ concept. What is a phoneme? Give its definition.
13.What is an allophone? What is a minimal pair?
14.What is the phonological opposition? What is the non-phonological opposition?

15. 
    Explain the principle of preliminary phonological analysis.
    
16. 
    What is a distinctive (phonologically relevant) feature? What is a nondistinctive (phonologically irrelevant) feature?
    
17. 
    Why do we use transcription? What types of transcription do you know?
    

What forms of transcription are used in English?

15. 
    Explain the difference between phonetic and phonological transcriptions.
    

19. With what other fields of science is phonetics connected?
What means of non-linguistic communication do you know? Explain the difference between linguistic and non-linguistic relationship.