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Exercise 2. Read and fill in the gaps: 
Comparative 
phonetics, 
Segmental 
phonology
, 
Specific 
phonetics,Suprasegmental phonology andGeneral phonetics. 
Phonetics can be divided into several types like: 
1...............................................It studies universal positions of sound 
articulation (for instance, identification of sounds according to the position the 
differences of labial, tongue and throat consonants, according to the ways of 
articulation of plosive, fricative and plosive-fricative features), although, 
general acoustic features of sounds.
2...............................................It investigates above mentioned issues in 
the samples of certain languages. Specific phonetics researches phonetics in 
the shapes of historical and modern, synchronic and diachronic, descriptive 
and experimental sides.
3.................................................investigates 
vowel 
and 
consonant 
phonemes, their phonetic changes and others in thecomparative aspect of 
several genetically related and non-related languages.
Phonetics and phonology have two levels: 
segmental
and 
suprasegmental
. 
4.......................................... studies phonemes realized in avarious 
speech sound. So it may be called phonemics.
5......................................... (prosodics) studies the distinctive features 
realized in syllables, stress, and intonation.
►Activities for self-improvement 
 
Exercise 1. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True 
or False. 

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1.
Vowels are not stressed syllables in compared languages. 
True / False 
2.
Two types of stress are distinguished in compared languages. 
True / False 
3.
Sentence stress is a feature of the phonetic structure of a word as a 
vocabulary unit. 
True / False 
4.
The morphological stress exists only in Uzbek. 
True / False 
5.
'Olma (a noun) "apple". 
True / False 
6.
Stress is free in English. 
True / False 
7.
In English stress moves when suffixes are added. 
True / False 
8.
4 degrees of stress exist in Uzbek. 
True / False 
9.
Stress does not have word-distinctive and form-distinctive functions in 
Uzbek. 
True / False 
10.
'present-noun. 
True / False