Intonational Phonetic Association was founded in… and began publications of a special phonetic magazine….

A)1852, La Maitre Phonetique

B) 1829, Historical development of languages

C) 1877, English pronouncing dictionary

D)1886, La Maitre Phonetique

E) 1989, Phonetic symbols

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English, Italian, Russian and Spanish are languages where stress is

A)conditioned by the structure of the penultimate syllable

B) placed always on a given syllable

C) lexical: it comes as part of the word and must be memorized

D) placed on different syllables but in a predictable way

E) always on the penult: one syllable before the last

$$$ 96B What branch of phonetics studies the functional aspect of speech sounds

A)Physiological phonetics

B)Phonology

C)Acoustic phonetics

D)General phonetics _

E)Comparative phonetics

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…are said to have a regular stress rule.

A) Finnish, Hungarian and Polish

B) English, Italian, Russian

C)Classical Arabic and Latin, English

D)Spanish and Portuguese

E)German and French

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In the following languages homophonous words may differ only by the position of the stress: A) Finnish Hungarian and Polish

B)Classical Arabic and Latin, English

C) B) English, Italian, Russian

D)Spanish and Portuguese, Finnish

E)German and French

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In the following languages it is possible to use stress as a grammatical device.

A) Finnish Hungarian and Polish

B)Classical Arabic and Latin, English

C) B) English, Italian, Russian

D)Spanish and Portuguese, Finnish

E)German and French

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English is a stress-timed language.

A)it has no unstressed vowel reduction.

B)This language has no reduced vowels

C) where syllables are spoken at a roughly constant rate regardless of stress

D) where stressed syllables appear at a roughly constant rate, and non-stressed syllables are shortened to accommodate this.

E) it has all syllables stressed

@@@ Problems of phonostylistics

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The extralinguistic factor that we should consider as the purpose of the utterance is...

A) phonetic style- forming

B) style modifying

C) style-changing

D) style differentiating

E) stylistic device

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The extralinguistic factor that refers to as the speaker's attitude to the situation or to what he is saying or hearing is....

A)phonetic style- forming

B) style modifying

C) style-changing

D) style differentiating

E) stylistic device

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What are two widespread forms of communication between two participants

A) monologue and dialogue

B)polilogue

C) polyglot

D) phonetic

E) phonemic

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What is the artistic style?

A) informational

B) academic

C) publicistic

D) declamatory

E) conversational

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What is the scientific style?

A) informational

B) academic

C) publicistic

D) declamatory

E) conversational

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Phonostylistics is concerned with …

A)the study of phonetic phenomena and processes from the stylistic point of view

B)intonation group boundaries, pause, phrase

C)what the person talks about

D)fundamental consonant allophones

E)The modification of consonants in connected speech.

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Phonetic synonyms are ….

A)sounds that are able to express certain ideas, feeling, emotions,

B)a combination of speech sounds aiming at imitating natural sounds

C)arrangement of sounds which has an aethetic value.

D)utterance variations, conditioned by numerous extra-linguistic factors.

E) a set of such stylistic devices as irony, metonymy, metaphor

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The phonetic Norm is regarded as …

A) misleading, unrecognizable utterance

B) the source of phonostylistic information

C) the invariant of phonetic patterns circulating in language-in-action at a given period of time.

D) an oral text, recorded on a magnetic tape or its graphical representation on paper.

E) stylistically marked modifications of vowels, consonants, vowel-consonant sequences.

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The following are the examples of phonetic synonyms.

A)good, magnificent, knock out

B)awreddy, t’day’, lemme

C)‘hospitable, interesting, ‘adult

D)probably, suppose, g,by

E)bow-wow, splash, bang

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Euphonology means ….

A)breathy and raspy voice quality or coughing

B) vocal effects lacking any semantic force

C)the primary determinants of the speaker’s identify and purpose

D) combination of intellectual, emotional and volitional intonational patterns

E) to pronounce a word well

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Phonostylisticians are mainly interested in …

A)deviations from norms rather than in norms themselves

B) Basic intonational patterns

C)the utterance emphasized by means of increased sentence-stress and the glottal stop

D) intra- phrasal coordination

E) the use of regular rhythm

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Choose examples of Sound Symbolism.

A)He works . He can work. He was at work.

B)At the bottom of Kent Road. She is the happiest girl.

C) қорс-қорс, oink-oink, хрю-хрю, cock-a-doodle-doo

D) Oh, its wonderful, marvelous heavenly, delightful!

E) lemme, g’by, grammother, rasberry

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Russian sound | л | is …,

A)strident

B)musical

C)a glide

D)sibilant

E)jerky

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What is the scope of euphonology?

A) speech style

B) speech typology

C) status and occupation of the speaker

D) pleasantness and smoothness of sound

E) imitating sounds produced by animals

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What determines the choice of style?

A)Genres of speech in the Context of Oral Literature

B) Linguistic factors and explicable deviations

C)Stylistic devices carried by Phonetic expressive means

D) Use of intonation

E)Social settings or circumstances

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The following are extra-linguistic factors:

A)age, sex, social identify, purpose, occupation, personality traits

B) stress, pause, tambre, syllable, rhythm

C) phrase, words, constructions, immediate constituents

D) transcription, phonemes, sense perception, emotion

E) lexical and grammatical meanings expressed by words and constructions.

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According to … there are 5 verbal functional styles

A)Prof. Galperin

B) Ac. Scherba

C) Philosopher Aristotle

D) Prof. Trubetskoy

E) Bloomfield, the founder of American Descriptive Linguistics

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Verbal functional styles in Standard English are the following:

A) scientific, familiar, declamatory, informational, publicistic

B) the belles-letters style, publicistic, newspaper, scientific prose, the style of official documents

C) oratory speech, declamatory, newspaper, academic, publicistic

D) Informational, Academic, Publicistic, Artistic, Conversational

E) Colloquial style, full style

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Intonational styles singled out according to the purpose of com-n are the following:

A)the belles-letters style, publicistic, newspaper, scientific prose, the style of official documents

B)Informational, Academic, Publicistic, Declamatory, Official- business Style

C)oratory speech, declamatory, newspaper, academic, publicistic

D)Colloquial style, full style

E)scientific, familiar, declamatory, informational, publicistic

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According to A. Dubrovsky phonetic styles are:

A) Colloquial style, full style

B)oratory speech, declamatory, newspaper, academic, publicistic

C) the belles-letters style, publicistic, newspaper, scientific prose, the style of official documents

D)Solemn, Scientific-business, official business, Everyday, Familiar

E) Informal ordinary, Formal neutral, Formal official, Informal familiar Declamatory.

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…. points out that people speak differently on different occasions.

A)S.M. Gaiduchic

B) D. Jones

C)M. Sokolova

D) M. Vassyliev

E) A.D. Schweitzer

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Formal style is used by …

A)teachers and actors in reading about fiction

B) scientists in formal and informal discussions

C) university lectures when delivering lecture

D) intimate friends when speaking aloud their study

E) radio and television announcers and in various official situations

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