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c) analysis and analysis
d) there is no stages
130) In what century Linguistic typology witnessed its second birth?
a) XX century
b) XIX century
c)
XVIII century
d) second half of XIX century
131) The first period of scientific linguistics is….
a) the period of the Universal Grammar
b) the period of comparative Linguistics
c) the period of System Linguistics
d) the period of Structural Linguistics
132)Appearance of dictionaries was the influence of…
a)
fifth factor
b) sixth factor
c) fourth factor
d) third factor
133) The first factor is…
a) typological imitation
b) development of comparative language studies
c) appearance of scientific
comparative works
d) influence of Lexicography
134) Greenberg grouped the hundreds of African languages into…
a) four families
b) three families
c) five families
d) two families
1.
The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a ...
a)
phone
b)
morpheme
c)
phoneme
d)
allophone
2.
A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
b)
pressure phase
and friction phase
c)
Nothing
d)
place of articulation
e)
the manner of articulation
3.
A voiced and a voiceless sound differ in ...
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e)
There is no difference
f)
the direction of the air stream
g)
aspiration
h)
vocal chord action
4.
In which of these words is the vowel the shortest?
e)
bean
f)
bead
g)
bee
h)
beat
5.
… which is mainly concerned with the functioning of phonetic units in the
language.
e)
segmental phonetics;
f)
practical phonetics;
g)
suprasegmental phonetics;
h)
theoretical phonetics.
6.
The branch of phonetics that studies the linguistic
function of consonant and
vowel sounds, syllable structure, word accent and prosodic features, such as
pitch, stress and tempo is called …
e)
phonology;
f)
instrumental phonetics;
g)
practical phonetics;
h)
theoretical phonetics;
7.
… studies the larger units of connected speech syllables, words, phrases, texts.
e)
segmental phonetics;
f)
theoretical phonetics;
g)
practical phonetics;
h)
suprasegmental phonetics.
8.
How many vowels are there in the English, Russian and Uzbek languages?
e)
20, 6, 6
f)
18, 6, 10
g)
19, 6, 6
h)
24, 10, 6
9.
What language classifies vowels into short and long according to the
length
e)
Russian
f)
English
g)
Uzbek
h)
Polish
10.
According to the palatalization of the tongue, what language has soft and hard
consonants?
e)
English
f)
Uzbek
g)
Russian
h)
Polish
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11.
According to the passive organs of speech, consonants are divided into:
e)
Labial
f)
Dental and alveolar
g)
Sonorant
h)
Fricative
12.
A special prominence given to one more syllable in a word is:
e)
The pause
f)
The rhythm
g)
The melody
h)
The stress
13.
Which language has free word stress?
e)
Russian and English
f)
Czeck and Slovak
g)
French
h)
Kazakh
14.
What is a syllable?
e)
Morphemic
structure of the word
f)
One of the speech sounds
g)
The shortest segment of speech sounds
h)
Segmental structure of the word
15.
Find the correct answer where English and Uzbek stress position is correctly
shown.
f)
words in English have mostly 1
st
syllable stressed position and Uzbek last
syllable stressed position
g)
words in Uzbek have mostly 2
nd
syllable stressed position and English 1
st
syllable stressed position
h)
there is no stable stress position in both languages
i)
words in Uzbek and English have free syllable stressed position