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VARIANT II
1. What does phonology study?
a) It studies speech sounds and sentences
b) It studies phonemes and morphemes
c) It studies the functional aspect of speech sounds
d) It studies sound waves
2. What does special phonetics study?
a) It is concerned with the study of man’s sound-producing mechanism
b) It deals with the phonetic structure of two or more languages
c) It deals with the historical development of speech sounds
d) It studies the phonetic system of a concrete language
3. What does the direct observation method comprise?
a) By ear, by sight, by muscular sensation
b) Instruments and equipments
c) Linguistic analysis
d) Laryngoscope, kymograph, spectrograph
4. Who are the representatives of the St. Peterburg phonological School?
a) Avanesov, Sidorov, Panov, Zinder, Jakovlev
b) Zinder, Matusevich, Bondarko, Gvozdev, Litkin
c) Trubetskoy, Scalichka, Bondarko, Zinder
d) Scherba, Vassilyev, Panov, Jakovlev
5. What aspects of phoneme does L. V.Scherba point out?
a) Concrete
b) Generalized
c) Functional
d) a, b, c.
6. What is the orthoepic norm of the English language?
a) General America
b) Received Pronunciation
c) Northern English
d) Southern American
7. Define the types of Australian English pronunciation?
a) Educated, General American, Broad
b) Educated, Broad, General Australian
c) R.P. General Australian, Educated
d) Northern, Southern, Western Australian
8. Define the classification of English vowels according to the position of lips?
a) Rounded and unrounded
b) Tense and lax
c) Long and short
d) Free and checked
9. What phoneme appears as a result of weakening of the vowels in unstressed position?
a) [a]
b) [u]
c) [ə]
d) [u:]
10. Define the type of assimilation in the word horseshoe.
a) Complete, regressive
b) Incomplete, progressive
c) Partial, regressive
d) Complete, progressive
11. Who suggests the muscular tension (or the articulatory effort) theory?
a) D. Jones
b) L. Scherba
c) F. de Saussure
d) O. Jespersen
12. What phonemes except vowels are syllable in English?
a) Fricatives
b) Plosives
c) Consonants
d) Sonorant
13. Word stress in language may be…..
a) Dynamic, musical, quantitative, qualitative
b) Dynamic, force, stative, fixed
c) Articulatory, acoustic, functional, auditory
d) Musical, tonic, dynamic, fixed
14. According to D. Jones and instrumental investigations polysyllabic words have…..
a) One degree of stress
b) Two degrees of stress
c) As many degrees of stress as there are syllables in them
d) One primary, two secondary and one unstressed
15. What are the elements of an intonation group?
a) Pre-head, head, nucleus, tail
b) Pre-head, tempo, head, nucleus
c) Head, level-tone, rhythm and timbre
d) Tempo, timbre, sentence stress and tail
16. What are main branches (or types) of phonetics?
a) General, descriptive, special, linguistic
b) General, special, descriptive, historical
c) General, special, historical, and comparative
d) General, special, typological and comparative
17. Who is the author of the book “Principles of Phonology” which discusses the relation of phonology to other studies?
a) V. Vassilyev
b) L. Shcherba
c) L. Zinder
d) N. Trubetzkoy
18. According to the representatives of the London Phonological School phoneme is treated as…..
a family of sounds
a speech sound
a sound image
an allophone
19. Find an aspirated sound
speed
day
spy
peak
20. Which type of pronunciation in the American English is regarded as a literary (standard) pronunciation?
Northern English
Southern American
Western American
Eastern American
21. What are main principles of vowel articulation?
noise, voice, the muscular tension is spread over all organs of speech
based on voice, the muscular tension is spread over all organs of speech, no obstruction to the air stream, vocal cords are vibrated
based on voice, the muscular tension is concentrated at the place of articulation, no obstruction, vocal cords are vibrated
based on voice, the muscular tension is free, there is an obstruction, vocal cords are not vibrated
22. According to the stability of articulation vowels are classified into……
monophthongs, diphthongs and dipthongoids
tense, lax and fortis
monophtongs and triphtongs
fortis, lenis and lax
23. What are bilabial consonants?
l, r, t, d
p, b, m, w
s, z, f, v
t, d, k, g
24. What is diaphonic variation according to G.P.Torsuyev?
a) It is an equivalent of allophone
b) It depends on the position and changes its quality and quantity
c) It does not depend on the position
d) It depends on the position and does not change in quality
25. Point out the line with complete assimilation?
a) Absent
b) Let me
c) Twenty
d) Try
26. Elision is ….
a) Lialision
b) Assimilation of sounds
c) Accommodation of vowels and consonants
d) The leaving out of a sound
27. Find the line with intrusive”r”
a) The idea of
b) Give me
c) For along line
d) Brother and sister
28. What functional can a syllable perform?
a) Constitutive
b) Distinctive
c) Articulatory
d) A and B
29. According to Jones, Kingdon, Vassilyev there are……
a) 4 degrees of stress
b) 3 degrees of stress
c) 2 degrees of stress
d) No degrees of stress
30. Who suggests broad definition of intonation?
a) Russian and Uzbek phoneticians
b) American and British phonologists
c) Representatives of the London phonological School
d) I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay
For each correct answer
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1 point
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Total questions
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30
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Total points
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30
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