In January 1889, the name of the Association (fta)(the association to encourage the use of phonetic notation) was changed to…

A)the Intonational phonetic alphabet association

B) International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association

C) L'Association Phonétique des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (AP)

D) L'Association Phonétique Internationale (API)

E) Dhi Fonètik Tîcerz' Asóciécon (the FTA)

$$$ 93D The International Phonetic Alphabet divides its letter symbols into three categories:

A) vowels, consonants,semi-consonants

B) vowels, semi- vowels, consonants

C) plosives, fricatives, affricates

D) pulmonic consonants, non-pulmonic consonants, and vowels

E) fortis ,lenis consonants

$$$ 94C

What consonants are non-pulmonic?

A) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on theheart.

B) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the brain.

C) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the lungs.

D) sounds whose airflow is dependent on the lungs.

E) they include sibilants,

$$$ 95D

What is a pulmonic consonant?

A) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on theheart

B) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the brain.

C) sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the lungs.

D) a consonant made by obstructing the glottis or oral cavity and either simultaneously or subsequently letting out air from the lungs

E) a sound which is articulated without any obstruction

$$$ 96A

Who among researchers in the field of experimental phonetics and psychology of speech named prosody as “grandwork on which intonations and words are embroidered”?

A) V.A.Artemov

B) Ch.Carpenter Fries

C) L.Bloomfield

D) Ferdinand-de-Saussure

E) F.F.Fortunatov

$$$ 97B

prosodia from

A German-an intonation

B) Latin-an accent, a refrain

C) French- a refrain

D) Greek -rhythm

E) English- tempo

$$$ 98C

Prosody is a complex of such phonetic suprasegment means as ….

A) the text, the discourse, the register

B) high-rise, a phrase, superphrase unity,

C) high-rise, power, time, including a pause

D) a syllable, a word, a word-combination,

E) a syntagma, a phrase, superphrase unity, the text

$$$ 99B

Which is the correct statement:

A) English people speak more loudly and faster, than Russian people, do fewer pauses, but these pauses are longer.

B) Russian people speak more loudly and faster, than Englishmen, do fewer pauses, but these pauses are longer

C) Russian people speak

D)desscending tones in English language begin at lower level, than in Russian, and have liquid form.

E) Russian people are always keen on pronuncing English vowels

$$$ 100D

Change of standard patterns of rising or falling intonation also has meaning. Falling intonation generally expresses

A) readiness to continue conversation

B) implies a request to repeat

C) non-finality ,incompleteness,

D) completion, finality and confidence

E) surprise, doubt, interest.

@@@ Phonetics as a branch of Linguistics

$$$ 1A

Articulatory phonetics studies…

A) the physiological mechanisms of speech production.

B) the measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce during speech.

C) individual aspects of articulatory control and acoustic effects produced by articulation.

D) segments that are individual units of linguistic structure

E) the use of standardized phonetic alphabet.

$$$ 2B

Acoustic phonetics studies…

A) the physiological mechanisms of speech production.

B) the measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce during speech.

C) individual aspects of articulatory control and acoustic effects produced by articulation.

D) segments that are individual units of linguistic structure

E) the use of standardized phonetic alphabet.

$$$ 3C

Glides share properties of …

A) vowels

B) consonants

C) both vowels and consonants

D) voicless sounds

E) voiced sounds

$$$ 4B

The underlined sounds in the words yet, wet are…

A) terminate glides

B) initial glides.

C) sonorant

D) vowel

E) sibilant

$$$ 5A

The terms semivowel and semiconsonant may be used interchangeably with the term..

A) glide

B) sonorant

C) alveolar

D) palatal

E) velar.

$$$ 6A

Phonetic transcription includes…

A) the transcription of allaphones of each phoneme

B) less phonetic information than in phonemic transcription.

C) the words that are transcribed using only phonemes

D) all and only those aspects of a representation that are unpredictable, all predictable information is excluded.

E) the phonological contrasts of the language.

$$$ 7C

Phonemic transcription includes…

A) the transcription of allaphones of each phoneme

B) more phonetic information than in phonetic transcription.

C) the words that are transcribed using only phonemes

D) all predictable information.

E) the phonological contrasts of the language.

$$$ 8 A

What are the main divisions of phonetics:

A) phonology and the study of substance

B) acoustic and power mechanism

C) physiology and psychology

D) linguistic and physiology

E) sociolinguistics and paralinguistics

$$$ 9B

What is phonology?

A) it carries the code

B) the study of the sound pattern of language

C) the movements of speech apparatus

D) the process of speech sound production

E) the systematization of data connected with phonetics

$$$ 10A

What stage can be called Psychological?

A) the formation of the concept takes place at a linguistic level, that is in the brain of the speaker;

B) the movements of the speech apparatus disturb the air stream thus producing sound waves;

C) the nervous system to the speech organs

D) the movements of speech apparatus

E) the process of speech sound production

$$$ 11C

To what stage are the following belong: The reception of the sound waves by the listener's hearing physiological apparatus, the transmission of the spoken message through the nervous system to the brain and the linguistic interpretation of the information conveyed.

A) Psychological

B) Physiological

C) Physical and acoustic

D) Logical

E) Neural

$$$ 12C

The function of the vocal cords consist in their role as a …set in motion by the air- stream sent by the lungs.

A) glottis

B) voice

C) vibrator

D) pitch

E) palate

$$$ 13A

The opening between the vocal cords is known as the

A) Glottis

B) pitch

C) vocal cords

D) larynx

E) palate

$$$ 14B

The main component of the supraglottal cavity:

A) pharynx

B) oral cavity

C) nasal cavity

D) larynx

E) lungs

$$$ 15A

The branch of phonetics that studies the way in which the air is set in motions, the movements of speech organs and the coordination of these movements is in the production of single sounds.

What branch of phonetics is this?

A) Articulatory

B) acoustic

C) auditory

D) imagery

E) instrumental

$$$ 16C

The branch of phonetics that studies the way in which the air vibrates between the speaker's mouth and the listener's ear.

A) Articulatory

B) auditory

C) acoustic

D) imagery

E) instrumental

$$$ 17A

What method of investigation is widely used in experimental phonetics:

A) Instrumental method

B) Written m.

C) Articulatory m

D) Oral m.

E) non instrumental

$$$ 18D

Where is instrumental method widely used?

A) experimental phon.

B) Articulatory phon.

C) Social phon.

D) Phonostylistics

E) lexicology

$$$19A

The branch of phonetics that studies the linguistic function of consonant and the vowel sounds, syllabic structure, word accent and prosodic features, such as pitch, stress and tempo is called

A) Phonology

B)psychology

C)physiology

D)morphology

E) syntax

$$$20A

What is the segmental phonetics?

A) which is concerned with individual sounds

B) whose domain is the larger units of connected speech: syllables, words, phrases, texts.

C) which extends the whole phonological system

D) which is concerned with syllables only

E) which is concerned with melody, pitch

$$$ 21B

What is suprasegmental phonetics?

A) which is concerned with individual sounds

B) whose domain is the larger units of connected speech: syllables, words, phrases, texts.

C) which extends the whole phonological system

D) which is concerned with syllables only

E) which is concerned with melody, pitch

$$$ 22C

What is usually regarded as a specific division of linguistics , (as a sister science)?

A Stylistics

B) morphology

C) grammar

D)logistics

E) language history

$$$ 23A

Who was the first scientist that suggested the well-known classification of the aspects of stylistic phenomena:

A) V.V. Vinogradov

B) N.S. Trubetskoy

C) L.Bloomfield

D) RJakobson

E) L. Sokolova

$$$24D

Who classifies the pronunciation errors into phonological and phonetic

A) V.V. Vinogradov

B) N.S. Trubetskoy

C) L.Bloom

D) Sherba

E) L. Sokolova

$$$ 25A

What are the principal allophones ?

A) which do not undergo any distinguishable changes in the chain of speech

B)which change in the articulation of allophones that occur under the influence of the neighboring sounds in different phonetic situations

C)which disappear during the process of speech

D) which become shorter before a voiceless consonant

E) which become shorter before a voiced consonant

$$$ 26B

What are the subsidiary allophones?

A) which do hot undergo any distinguishable changes in the chain of speech

B) which change in the articulation of allophones that occur under the influence of the neighboring sounds in different phonetic situations,

C)which disappears during the process of speech D) which become shorter before a voiceless consonant

E) which become shorter before a voiced consonant

$$$ 27A

What is the accommodation?

A) the interchanges of vowels and consonants

B) the interchanges of consonants + consonants

C) the interchanges of vowels + vowels

D) qualitative weakening of vowels

E) quantitative weakening of vowels

$$$ 28A

What is reduction?

A) weakening of vowels in unstressed positions

B) the strengthening of consonants in stress positions

C) the strengthening of vowels in unstressed positions

D) weakening of consonants in unstressed positions

E) the interchanges of vowels + vowels

$$$ 29E

What is Elision?

A) qualitative weakening of vowels

B) appearing of the sounds, vowels and consonants

C) exchanging of sounds, vowels and consonants

D) quantitative weakening of vowels

E) loss of sounds, vowels and consonants

$$$ 30A

What is assimilation? A) modification of consonants in connected speech

B) appearing of the sounds, vowels and consonants

C) loss of sounds, vowels and consonants

D) adjacent sounds quite dissimilar each other

E) changes of organs of speech

$$$ 31C

What phenomenon are is used in the following examples "eighth", "at the", "breadth","said that" A) progressive assimilation

B) partial regressive assimilation

C) regressive assimilation

D)double assimilation .

E) historical assimilation

$$$ 32A

What phenomenon is used in the following examples "Wednesday", " listen"

A) regressive assimilation

B) progressive assimilation _:

C) double assimilation

D) elision

E) nasal plosion

$$$ 33D

"twin", "twice"- what kind of assimilation is observed in this pattern

A) regressive assimilation

B) progressive assimilation

C) partial regressive assimilation

D)double assimilation .

E) historical assimilation

$$$ 34A

The loss of one or more distinctive features of a phoneme in weak position is ....

A) phonemic neutralization

B) sound alternation

C) appearance of a sound

D) occurance of most striking assimilative changes

E) progressive devoicing

$$$ 35C

The linguistic importance of this aspect in different languages is in observing the syllabic structure as the meaningful units of a language.

A) intonation patterns

B) suprasegmental devices

C) syllable division

D) word formation

E) sentence formation

$$$ 36D

How many syllables are there in the word "oh" and to what type of syllable it belongs?

A) CV open

B) VC covered

C) CV covered

D) Vopen

E) CVC closed

$$$ 37B

How many syllables are there in the word "odd " and to what type of syllable it belongs?

A) CV open

B) VC covered at the end

C) CV covered at the beginning

D) V uncovered

E) CVC closed

$$$ 38A

How many syllables are there in the word "straw " and to what type of syllable it belongs?

A) CCCV covered at the beginning

B) VC closed

C) CCCV covered at the end

D) V uncovered

E) CVC closed

$$$ 39D

The term 'phonetics' is derived from:

A)English

B)Latin

C) Hindu

D)Greek

E)French

$$$ 40

Phonetics is an independent branch of:

A)Lexicology

B)Linguistics

C)Stylistics

D)Grammar

E)Logics

$$$ 41E

Phonetics is connected with:

A)Grammar and physics

B)Lexicology and anatomy

C)Physiology

D)Stylistics

E) with all variants above

$$$ 42D

What does physiological phonetics study?

A)It studies the acoustic properties of speech sounds

B)It studies the functional aspect of speech sounds

C)It studies the fundamental frequency of a sound

D)It studies the articulatory and auditory aspects of speech sounds

E)lt studies speech sounds

$$$ 43A

What is the oldest and the most developed branch of phonetics?

A)Physiological phonetics

B)PhonoIogy

CAcoustic phonetics

D)General phonetics

E)Comparative phonetics

$$$ 44D

What branch of phonetics studies the articulatory and auditory aspect of speech sounds?

A)General phonetics

B)Phonology

C)Acoustic phonetics

D)Physiological phonetics

E)Comparative phonetics

$$$ 45D

Phonetics which studies the contemporary phonetic system of a language is called:

A) Historical phonetics

B)General phonetics

C)Comparative phonetics

D)Special phonetics

E)Descriptive phonetics

$$$ 46A What is the principal method used in physiological phonetics?

A)The method of direct observation

B)The experimental method

C)The method of discovering minimal pairs

D)The statistical method

E)The method of commutation

$$$ 47A

What are the main speech mechanisms?

A)Power, vibrator, resonator, obstructer

B)Power .resonator

C) Obstructer, vibrator

D)Resonator,vibrator

E)Vibrator,power

$$$ 48D