Uzbekistan state world languages university

Exercise#2. Read and fill in the gaps:


Comparative phonetics, Segmental phonology, Specific
phonetics,Suprasegmental phonology andGeneralphonetics.


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. 
   (prosodies) studies the distinctive features
   

realized in syllables, stress, and intonation.


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Activities for self-improvement ’
Kxorcise#l. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or False.

1. 
   Vowels are not stressed syllables in compared languages.