Ўзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети

Intermediate сomputer test

(оралиқ назорат тест саволлари) Variant 1

1. 
   What does phonetics study?
   
   1. 
      Morphemes
      
   2. 
      Words
      
   3. 
      Speech sounds
      
   4. 
      Sentences
      
2. 
   Phonetics is closely connected with…..
   
   1. 
      Grammar
      
   2. 
      Lexicology
      
   3. 
      Stylistics
      
   4. 
      a, b, c.
      
3. 
   What aspects do the speech sounds have?
   
   1. 
      Articulatory, physiological, functional and linguistic
      
   2. 
      Articulatory, physiological, phonological and functional
      
   3. 
      Articulatory, acoustic, auditory and linguistic
      
   4. 
      Articulatory, acoustic, auditory and perceptual 4. What is the experimental method based on?
      

1. 
   Special apparatus or instruments
   
2. 
   Laryngoscope and sight
   
3. 
   Listening
   
4. 
   Feeling
   

5. What does special phonetics study?

1. 
   It is concerned with the study of man‘s sound-producing mechanism
   
2. 
   It deals with the phonetic structure of two or more languages
   
3. 
   It deals with the historical development of speech sounds
   
4. 
   It studies the phonetic system of a concrete language 6. What does the direct observation method comprise?
   

1. 
   By ear, by sight, by muscular sensation
   
2. 
   Instruments and equipments
   
3. 
   Linguistic analysis
   
4. 
   Laryngoscope, kymograph, spectrograph
   

7. 
   What are main branches (or types) of phonetics?
   

1. 
   General, descriptive, special, linguistic
   
2. 
   General, special, descriptive, historical
   
3. 
   General, special, historical, and comparative
   
4. 
   General, special, typological and comparative
   

7. 
   Who was the first linguist to distinguish speech sounds and phoneme?
   

1. 
   I. A. Bandouin de Courtenay
   
2. 
   L. V. Shcherba
   
3. 
   N.V. Krushevsky
   
4. 
   N. S. Trubezkoy
   

7. 
   Define L.V.Scherba‘s phoneme definition?
   
   1. 
      The smallest language unit which is able to distinguish words from each other
      

2. 
   The shortest general sound image of a given language, which is capable of associating with the images of meaning differentiating words
   
3. 
   Psychological equivalent of the speech sounds
   
4. 
   The sum of acoustic impressions and of articulatory movements
   
7. 
   What theory do the Prague phonologists suggest about diphthongs?
   

1. 
   Analytic treatment
   
2. 
   Unit theory
   
3. 
   Functional approach
   
4. 
   Morphological criteria
   

11. 
    Who is the founder of phonology and the phoneme theory?
    

1. 
   L.V. Shcherba
   
2. 
   N.S. Trubetzkoy
   
3. 
   N.V Krushevskiy
   
4. 
   T.A. Boudouin de Courtenay
   

11. 
    When did the phonemic period begin?
    

1. 
   1845
   
2. 
   1870
   
3. 
   1865
   
4. 
   1929
   

11. 
    Who are representatives of the Moscow Phonological School?
    

1. 
   Scherba, Vassilyev, Dickushkina, Panov
   
2. 
   Zinder, Scalichka, Vachek
   
3. 
   Avaneso, Sidorov, Reformatsky
   
4. 
   Jakovlev, Vassilyev, Panov
   

11. 
    Who are the representatives of the St. Peterburg phonological School?
    

1. 
   Avanesov, Sidorov, Panov, Zinder, Jakovlev
   
2. 
   Zinder, Matusevich, Bondarko, Gvozdev, Litkin
   
3. 
   Trubetskoy, Scalichka, Bondarko, Zinder
   
4. 
   Scherba, Vassilyev, Panov, Jakovlev
   

11. 
    What aspects of phoneme does L. V.Scherba point out?
    

1. 
   Concrete
   
2. 
   Generalized
   
3. 
   Functional
   
4. 
   a, b, c.
   

11. 
    Who is the author of the book ―Principles of Phonology‖ which discusses the relation of phonology to other studies?
    
    1. 
       V. Vassilyev
       
    2. 
       L. Shcherba
       
    3. 
       L. Zinder
       
    4. 
       N. Trubetzkoy
       
12. 
    According to the representatives of the London Phonological School phoneme is treated as…..
    
    1. 
       a family of sounds
       
    2. 
       a speech sound
       
    3. 
       a sound image an allophone
       
13. 
    What is a dialect?
    
    1. 
       It is the orthoepic norm of a language
       
    2. 
       Regional type of pronunciation
       
    3. 
       The variety which is spoken by is socially limited number of people only in certain localities
       
    4. 
       The variety which is spoken by all people
       
14. 
    What are main types of American English pronunciation?
    
    1. 
       GA, Western, Eastern
       
    2. 
       Western, Eastern, Southern
       
    3. 
       Eastern, Northern, Scottish
       
    4. 
       Northern, Southern, Eastern
       
15. 
    What is the orthoepic norm of the English language?
    
    1. 
       General America
       
    2. 
       Received Pronunciation
       
    3. 
       Northern English
       
    4. 
       Southern American
       

21 Define the types of Australian English pronunciation?

1. 
   Educated, General American, Broad
   
2. 
   Educated, Broad, General Australian
   
3. 
   R.P. General Australian, Educated
   
4. 
   Northern, Southern, Western Australian
   

22. Which type of pronunciation in the American English is regarded as a literary (standart) pronunciation?

1. 
   Northern English
   
2. 
   Southern American
   
3. 
   Western American
   
4. 
   Eastern American
   

23 What is RP (Received Pronunciation)?

a)It is the literary pronunciation of people.

2. 
   It is territorial peculiarities of pronunciation
   
3. 
   It is social type of pronunciation
   
4. 
   It is classification of pronunciation variants
   

24. 
    How does D.Jones call the Southern English pronunciation?
    

a)Standard English

2. 
   Uniform English
   
3. 
   Received pronunciation.
   
4. 
   General British
   
24. 
    What type of American Pronunciation is accented as the literary pronunciation in the
    

USA?

a)Western.

b)Southern

c)Eastern

d)Northern

24. 
    What is dialect?
    

6. 
   process of producing the noise
   
7. 
   graphic representation of a language.
   
8. 
   a feature of literary language
   
9. 
   linguistic variety of the language used by some group of speech community only in the spoken form and differ from the spoken literary form of a language j) pronunciation in UK
   

24. 
    What is the Southern English pronunciation?
    

5. 
   the orthoepic standard for American English
   
6. 
   the orthoepic standard for modern English.
   
7. 
   the distribution of vowel phonemes
   
8. 
   the distribution of consonant phonemes
   

24. 
    What does comparative type phonetics study?
    

1. 
   comparative type phonetics concerned with the comparative study of the phonetic systems of two or more languages.
   
2. 
   comparative phonetics is concerned with the comparative study of the phonetic system of only one languages.
   
3. 
   comparative phonetics studies only German languages.
   
4. 
   there is no comparative phonetics.
   

24. 
    Fill in the gap.
    

.... is a member of phonological opposition. a. language

2. 
   lexicology
   
3. 
   word
   
4. 
   phoneme
   
5. 
   linguistics
   

24. 
    What does general phonetics study?
    

It studies ... .

1. 
   Phonetic system of a certain language.
   
2. 
   Man‘s sound producing possibilities and the functioning of his speech mechanism.
   
3. 
   Phonetic system of two or more languages.
   
4. 
   Historical development of phonetic system of a certain language.