E) suprasegmental phonetics

6. … studies the system of sound units and their function.

a) phonology;

b) instrumental phonetics;

c)practical phonetics;

d)theoretical phonetics;

e) experimental phonetics.

7. What sciences are connected with phonetics?

a) medicine; physics, psychology, statistics, engineering;

b) mathematics, statistics, computer technologies;

c) physics, mathematics, engineering, computer technologies;

d) medicine, physics, psychology, linguistics, maths, statistics, computer technologies;

e) psychology, biology, physics.

8. The branch of phonetics that studies the way in which the air is set into motion, the movement of the speech organs and the coordination of these movements in the production of English sounds and trains of sounds is called …

a) articulator phonetics;

b) practical phonetics;

c) normative phonetics;

d) acoustic phonetics;

e) theoretical phonetics.

9. … studies the linguistic function of individual sounds or segments of speech.

a) segmental phonetics;

b) practical phonetics;

c) normative phonetics;

d) suprasegmental phonetics;

e) theoretical phonetics.

10. Some sound alterations are traced to the phonetic changes in earlier periods of the language development and are known as …

a) Historical;

b) Functional;

c) Phonological;

d) Principal;

e) Abstract.

11. The actual pronounced sounds which we hear are formed with stylistic, situational, personal characteristics are …

a) allophones;

b) phonemes;

c) phones;

d) sounds;

e) homophones.

12. The phonological analysis of English consonant sounds distinguishes …

a) 23 phonemes;

b) 24 phonemes;

c) 30 phonemes;

d) 22 phonemes;

e) 21 phonemes;

13. The abstract view of the phoneme was pioneered by …

a) Hjelmselv;

b) D.Jones;

c) N.S. Trubetskoy;

d)A.C. Gimson;

e) L.V. Shcherba.

14. The bundle of distinctive features is …

a) the peculiarity of a phoneme;

b) the predominance of a phoneme;

c ) the invariant of a phoneme;

d) the essence of a phoneme;

e) the reflection of a phoneme.

15. The study of the relationship between phonemes and morphemes is called …

a) Morphology;

b) Morphophonemics;

c) Phonology;

d) Morphonology;

e) Morphophonology.

16. ….is a representation of a phoneme in a particular position context.

a) relevance;

b) distinction;

c) an allophone;

d) a phoneme;

e) irrelevance.

17. The allophones which do not undergo any distinguishing changes in the chain of speech are called …

a) material;

b)subsidiary;

c)objective;

d)principal;

e)real.

18. … is a representation of a phoneme in a particular position context.

a) an allophone;

b) a phoneme;

c) a phone;

d) a sound;

e) a homophone.

19. There are … major classes of sounds in English.

a) 1

B) 2

c) 4

d) 5

e) 3

20. … are known to have voice and noise combined, while vowels are sounds consisting of voice only.

a)consonants;

b)sonorants;

c)vowels;

d)diphthongs;

e)diphthongoids.

21. Russian phoneticians classify …. According to 1) degree of noise; 2) place of articulation; 3) manner of articulation; 4) position of the soft palate; 5) force of articulation.

a)consonants;

b)sonorants;

c)vowels;

d)diphthongs;

e)diphthongoids.

22. … distinguishes two large classes of consonants: a) acclusive; b) constrictive;

a) G.P. Torsuyev;

b) N.K. Vassilyev;

c) N.S. Trubetskoy;

d)A.C. Gimson;

e) L.V. Shcherba.

23. The place of articulation of nasal sound in the word ‘seventh’

a) Labio-dental;

b) Velar;

c) Palate-alveolar;

d) Dental;

e) Alveolar.

24. According to what criterion a sound complex is considered to be monophonemic if a morpheme boundary cannot pass within it, because it’s generally assumed that a phoneme is morphologically indivisible

a) phonological;

b) morphological;

c) monophemic;

d) logical;

e) phonetical.

25. …classifies the pronunciation errors as phonological and phonetic.

a) G.P. Torsuyev;

b) D.Jones;

c) N.S. Trubetskoy;

d)A.C. Gimson;

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