Typology of the Phonetic and Phonological Systems

1. Point out the general rule of syllabification in English and Ukrainian.

a) the intervocalic consonant sound always occurs in the syllable;

b) similar changes of syllable boundaries occur when there are other intervocalic consonants;

c) the consonants have limited combinability with vowels;

d) each vowel forms a syllable

2. What kind of a stress is expressed through prolonging vowel or consonant sounds in prominent syllables?

a) utterance stress;

b) emphatic stress;

c) logical stress;

d) word-stress.

3. What peculiarity do English disyllabic, trisyllabic and polysyllabic have words in contrast to Ukrainian one?

a) dynamic word-stress;

b) obligatory secondary stress;

c) one and the same word may have parallel accentuation;

d) one or two primary stress.

4. The most important components of intonation in English and Ukrainian are…

a) speech melody and sentence/utterance stress;

b) speech tempo and pausation;

c) speech melody and speech tempo;

d) pausation and timbre.

5. What assertion is erroneous?

a) the Ukrainian speech is fluent;

b) the intensity of the unstressed syllables is weaker in Ukrainian and stronger in English;

c) the English speech is slightly harsh;

d) the intensity with which the stressed syllables are pronounced, is stronger in English, and weaker in Ukrainian.

6. The main function of intonation is…

a) to regulate the rhythmic alteration of the stressed and the unstressed syllables in the utterances;

b) to delimit the sense units, i.e., syntagms in speech;

c) to constitute the intonation groups/syntagms and whole utterances;

d) to form semantically dependent sense units.

7. Point out monophthongs which constitute the nuclei of diphthongs.

a) / ε /, / o /, / a /;

b) / i: /, / ə /, / æ /;

c) / u: /, / α /, / ј: /;

d) / ν /, / o /, / ε /, / u: /.

8. Find the main subclasses of consonants which are singled out on the basis of their acoustic and articulatory characteristics.

a) bilabials, interdental, back-lingual and glottal;

b) voiced and voiceless;

c) plosive, fricatives, affricates and sonorants;

d) fricatives, nasals, lateral and oral.

Typology of the Lexical Systems

1. How are the semasiological characteristics of a word displayed?

a) through its lexico-grammatical nature;

b) through its semantic structure;

c) through its morphological structure and its categorical meaning;

d) through its lexical nature and stylistic meaning.

2. What is the most productive way of word-formation in English and Ukrainian?

a) morphologico-syntactic;

b) lexico-syntactic;

c) morphological;

d) lexico-semantic.

3. What means don’t belong to the morphological way of word-formation?

a) compounding;

b) conversion;

c) affixation;

d) non-affixal.

4. The way of word-formation in which words are formed by confrontation of two

or more truncated words or roots of words, is called…

a) reversion;

b) reduplication;

c) accentual;

d) blending.

5. Find the row, where all words conform to such word-building model as

N+Suf= N.

a) socialist, heroism, clearance, earthy;

b) freedom, reddish, Londoner, teacher;

c) hostess, feudalism, librarian, dearie;

d) grammarian, softness, seaward, glorious.