Ўзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети

Tests for the seminar

1. 
   What does phonetics study?
   
   1. 
      Morphemes
      
   2. 
      Words
      

*c) Speech sounds d) Sentences

2. 
   Phonetics is closely connected with…..
   
   1. 
      Grammar
      
   2. 
      Lexicology
      
   3. 
      Stylistics
      

*d) a, b, c.

3. 
   What aspects do the speech sounds have?
   
   1. 
      Articulatory, physiological, functional and linguistic
      
   2. 
      Articulatory, physiological, phonological and functional *c) Articulatory, acoustic, auditory and linguistic d) Articulatory, acoustic, auditory and perceptual
      
4. 
   What is the experimental method based on? *a) Special apparatus or instruments b) 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
      

*d) It studies the phonetic system of a concrete language

6. 
   What does the direct observation method comprise? *a) By ear, by sight, by muscular sensation b) 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
      

*c) General, special, historical, and comparative d) General, special, typological and comparative

8. 
   What does phonetics study? It studies...
   
   1. 
      *speech sounds.
      
   2. 
      grammar.
      
   3. 
      lexicology
      
   4. 
      physiology
      

9. 
   What do you understand by segmental units?
   
   1. 
      we understand syllable structure, word stress and intonation
      
   2. 
      *segmental units are sounds of speech (vowels and consonants).
      

b) segments are distribution of the allophones of the phonemes

c). segments are medical units

10. 
    What do you understand by suprasegmental units?
    

1. 
   they are units of length
   
2. 
   they are elements of intensity c * they are units of syllable structure word stress and intonation.