Ўзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети

Questions

1. 
   What is the definition of stress?
   
2. 
   Explain Segmental and Suprasegmental units.
   
3. 
   What approaches exist to explain the nature of stress?
   
4. 
   What can you say about degrees of stress?
   
5. 
   How many accentual structures of English word stress do you know?
   
6. 
   What do you know about the place of word stress?
   
7. 
   Explain functions of stress.
   
8. 
   What accentual tendencies in English do you know?
   
9. 
   What is the difference between BE and AE?
   
10. 
    How many degrees of stress exist in AE?
    

Tests for the seminar

1. 
   Who suggested 11types of accentual structure of English words?
   

1. 
   V. Vassilyev
   
2. 
   O. Dickushina *c) G. Torsuyev d) D. Jones
   

2. 
   Stress in the English language is…….
   

*a) Free

2. 
   Fixed
   
3. 
   Shifting
   
4. 
   permanent
   

3. 
   Word stress in language may be…..
   

*a) Dynamic, musical, quantitative, qualitative b) Dynamic, force, stative, fixed

3. 
   Articulatory, acoustic, functional, auditory
   
4. 
   Musical, tonic, dynamic, fixed
   

4. 
   What is auditory impression of word stress?
   
   1. 
      Sound wave *b) Prominence.
      

3. 
   Formant structure
   
4. 
   Duration
   

5. 
   How many types of word stress may be found in languages? a) 1
   
   1. 
      2
      
   2. 
      3
      

*d) 4.

6. 
   What is a musical word stress? *a) it has variations in pitch level. b) it is prominent
   

3. 
   it is long
   
4. 
   it is loud
   

7. 
   What is the most important component of dynamic word stress? a) Length *b) Greator force. c) Quantity
   
   1. 
      Quality of vowel
      
8. 
   What types of word stress is distinguished in English according to G.Torsuyev? a) dynamic
   

2. 
   quantitative
   
3. 
   qualitative *d) a, b, c.
   

9. 
   How many degrees of stress are there according to Jones, Kingdon and Vassilyev? a) 2 *b) 3. c) 4
   

d) 5

10. 
    What is the place of word stress in English?
    

1. 
   stable
   
2. 
   fixed *c) free. d) a, b