1.      What is the largest unit of speech?

a.       discourse 

b.      utterance 

c.       tone unit 

d.      syllable

2.      What is the largest unit of language?

a.   text  

b.   sentence 

c.    phrase 

d.    word

3.   Articulatory phonetics is the study of the way speech sounds are made by:

a.    ear, auditory nerve 

b.    brain 

c.   vocal organs 

d.   between mouth and ear

4.   How many language resources does language consist as a code?

a.    two  

b.    three  

c.     four

    d.     one

5.    What unit of speech corresponds to the phoneme?

a.      allophone 

b.      syllable 

c.      articulatory feature

d.      rhythmic group

6.     Which one is the language resource?

a.      lexicon 

b.      utterance 

c.      tone unit 

d.      discourse

7.     How many components does the phonic substance of language consist of?

a.      one 

b.       two 

c.       three 

d.       four

8.     Give the name of the founder of   phonology.

a.       Crystal 

b.      Vassilyev 

c.       Clark 

d.      Trubetskoi

9.     .  How many aspects of speech sounds are distinguished?

a.         one

b.         two 

c.        three 

d.        four

10.     A labial, labio-dental, constrictive, fricative, voiceless, fortis consonant phoneme is:

a.          h

    b.          k  

    c.         f   

d.         r

11.  A labial, bilabial, constrictive, fricative, medial sonant is:

a.         j 

b.        

c.         r  

d.        l

12.    The founder of the phoneme theory is…

a.            I.O.Baudouin de Courtenay 

b.            A.Gimson 

c.            J.Wells 

d.            K.Pike

13. What scholar defined the phoneme as a family of sounds?

a.            L. Scherba 

b.            D. Jones 

c.            V. Vassyliev 

d.           R. Jakobson

14.  What type of assimilation occurs in the contractions it’s, that’s?

a.            regressive 

b.           progressive

    c.            reciprocal 

    d.             historical

   15. Initial unstressed syllables make…

a.             tail 

b.             nucleus 

c.             head 

d.            pre-head

    16. What type of stress is distinguished if special prominence is achieved through  the changes in the quality of the vowel under stress:

a.            musical or tonic stress

b.           dynamic or force stress 

c.           qualitative stress 

d.           quantitative stress

17. Syllables can be designated by the position in the word:

a.           initial  

b.           pretonic 

c.           tonic 

d.          posttonic


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