Variants of phonemes are: a)Speech sounds b)Letters c)Allophones

D)Words

E)Music

$$$ 83E What are the main aspects of the phoneme ?

A)Material .generalized

B)Objective .abstractional

C)Real generalized

D)Functional .material

E) All variants above

$$$ 84A

What type of word-stress does English have ?

A)Free word-stress

B)Fixed word-stress

C)Musical word-stress

D)No word-stress at all

E)Word-stress on penultimate syllable only

$$$ 85C What type of word-stress does the English accentual structure belong to?

A)Musical

B)Quantitative

C)Dynamic

D)Musical-dynamic

E)Qualitative

$$$86E What is a syllable?

A)Morphemic structure

B)One of the speech sounds

C)The shortest segment of speech continuum

D)The shortest speech continuum

E) The smallest phonetic groups

$$$ 87A

An intonograph measures automatically…

A)the fundamental tone of the vocal cords

B) the frequency of a given sound

C) qualitative variations of sounds

D) amplitude of vibration in relation to time

E) to investigate tambre characteristics of sound

$$$ 88C

The speech function of vocal cords is…

A)to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen

B) to provide place of articulation for consonants

C) to provide vibrations for speech sounds

D)to supply air for speech

E) to create seal over passage to lungs

$$$ 89A

The function of nose is…

A)to assist in breathing to provide nasal resonance during speech.

B) to seal oral cavity and to articulate vowels and consonants

C) perceiving of speech and responding to human voices

D) to provide nasal resonance during eating and to supply air for speech

E)supporting breath during speech and providing place of articulation during speech

$$$ 90D

Slant brackets are used to mark off…

A) commas , full stops, inverted commas, hyphens

B) exclamation and quotation marks

C) allophones

D) phonemic transcription

E) both phonemes and allophones

$$$ 91C

Square brackets are used to mark off…

A) commas , full stops, inverted commas, hyphens

B) exclamation and quotation marks

C) allophones

D) phonemic transcription

E) both phonemes and allophones

$$$ 92E

The speech function of vocal cords is…

A)to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen

B) to provide place of articulation for consonants

C) to provide vibrations for speech sounds

D)to supply air for speech

E) to create seal over passage to lungs

$$$ 93E

A spectrograph is used to …

A)the fundamental tone of the vocal cords

B) the frequency of a given sound

C) qualitative variations of sounds

D) amplitude of vibration in relation to time

E) to investigate tambre characteristics of sound

$$$ 94 D