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Questions

1. 
   What is a syllable?
   
2. 
   What theories of syllable formation and syllable division do you know?
   
3. 
   What is relative sonority theory?
   
4. 
   What is the essence of the expiratory theory?
   
5. 
   Explain L. V. Sherba’s 3 types of consonants theory.
   
6. 
   What types of structure do you know?
   
7. 
   What peculiarities of syllabic structure do you know?
   
8. 
   What types of syllable do you know?
   
9. 
   Explain peculiarities of syllable formation and syllable division.
   
10. 
    What can you say about the distinctive function of syllable?
    

Tests for the seminar
1. What is the syllable theory suggested by O. Jespersen?

a) Expiration

b) Muscular tension

c) Basic of articulation

*d) Relative sonority
2. What is the auditory impression of word stress?

*a) Prominence

b) Isolation

c) Intensities

d) Duration
3. The Swiss linguist F. de Saussure formulated a definition of the syllable on the basis of….

a) Sonority

b) Muscular tension

c) Expiration

*d) Articulation
4. Who suggests the muscular tension (or the articulatory effort) theory?

a) D. Jones

*b) L. Scherba

c) F. de Saussure

d) O. Jespersen
5. What phonemes except vowels are syllabic in English?

a) Fricatives

b) Plosives

c) Consonants

*d) Sonorants
6. 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
7. What functions can a syllable perform?

a) Constitutive

b) Distinctive

c) Aticulatory

*d) A and B
8. 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
9. Who suggested expiratory (or chest pulse) theory?

*a) R.Stetson.

b) F. de Saussure

c) L. Sherba

d) O. Jerpersen
10. What was the name of O.Jespersen’s syllable theory?

a) Expiratory

b) Chest pulse

*c) Relative sonority.

d) Muscular tension