1. D.Jones

2. L. Hjelmslev

3. I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay

4. L. Bloomfield

Вопрос №69

The public person who defined language as “the most important means of human intercourse”

1. V.I.Lenin

2. George Bush Junior

3. Michael Jackson

4. Peter K.Hogan

Вопрос №70

The science studying the correlation between the phonetic systems of two or more languages

1. comparative phonetics

2. historical phonetics

3. practical phonetics

4. phonology

Вопрос №71

The science whose aim is to trace and establish the successive changes in the phonetic system of a given language at different stages of its historical development

1. historical phonetics

2. comparative phonetics

3. practical phonetics

4. phonology

Вопрос №72

The science studying the contemporary phonetic system of a particular language to give a description of all its phonetic units

1. descriptive phonetics

2. comparative phonetics

3. historical phonetics

4. general phonetics

Вопрос №73

This sound in English never occurs at the beginning of a word

1. [ŋ]

2. [k]

3. [l]

4. [z]

Вопрос №74

This sound in English never occurs word finally

1. [æ]

2. [ð]

3. [ŋ]

4. [z]

Вопрос №75

The science which is widely used in surdo-pedagogics to teach normal oral speech to deaf and dumb people

1. Phonetics

2. Grammar

3. Lexicology

4. Orthography

Вопрос №76

The weakening of a sound due to a decrease in the tenseness of the speech organs resulting in the loss of some characteristics by the sound

1. reduction

2. assimilation

3. accommodation

4. vocalism

Вопрос №77

This sound in Russian never occurs at the beginning of a word in a citation form

1. [ы]

2. [с]

3. [о]

4. [л’]

Вопрос №78

The form of a language varying from locality to locality

1. Dialect

2. Standard

3. literary language

4. language

Вопрос №79

A national language has two material forms

A. written and spoken

B. simple and complicated

C. easy and difficult

D. received and vulgar

Вопрос №80

This variant of English pronunciation has the velar fricative voiceless phoneme similar to the Russian [x]

1. Standard Scottish Pronunciation

2. Received Pronunciation

3. General American

4. Public School Pronunciation

Вопрос №81

A type of pronunciation used by educated native speakers of the language which they learn at school

A. standard pronunciation

B. dialectal pronunciation

C. colloquial pronunciation

D. aboriginal pronunciation

Вопрос №82

A marker of position in society

A. pronunciation

B. height

C. beauty

D. strength

Вопрос №83

The reason why RP is accepted as the teaching norm in our country

1. this form of pronunciation is most commonly described in books on the phonetics of British English traditionally taught to foreigners

2. the majority of native speakers use this form of pronunciation

3. it is a result of the colonial expansion of British imperialism

4. it is a main type of pronunciation in the USA

Вопрос №84

The most distinctive feature of Northern English Pronunciation

1. the use of vowels other than in RP in the same words

2. the use of the velar fricative voiceless phoneme similar to the Russian [x]

3. all the consonants are palatalized

4. the use of the glottal stop in place of [t]

Вопрос №85

The reason why the teaching of RP as in a more advantageous position than that of GA

1. there are very few textbooks in which GA is compared with Russian pronunciation

2. the majority of native speakers use RP

3. GA is too difficult for students

4. GA is impossible to understand

Вопрос №86

The individual speech of a member of a language community

1. Idiolect

2. Dialect

3. Idiom

4. accent

Вопрос №87

The term phonetics comes from

1. Greek

2. Latin

3. English

4. Russian

Вопрос №88

All the movements and positions of the speech organs necessary to pronounce a speech sound

1. Articulation

2. Accent

3. Stress

4. intonation

Вопрос №89

The branch of phonetics which is concerned with the study, description and classification of speech sounds as regards their production by the human speech apparatus

1. articulatory phonetics

2. auditory phonetics

3. social phonetics

4. descriptive phonetics

Вопрос №90

The basic units of any language to make up the material forms of all its morphemes and words