1. sound alternations

2. phonemic neutralization

3. Received Pronunciation

4. Representation

Вопрос №151

Consonants articulated in the glottis

1. Glottal

2. lingual

3. labial

4. dental

Вопрос №152

Consonants made by the lips

1. labial

2. palatalized

3. bicentral

4. unicentral

Вопрос №153

Consonants articulated with the tip against the upper teeth ridge

1. alveolar

2. palatalized

3. bicentral

4. unicentral

Вопрос №154

A word or a group of words characterized by a certain intonation pattern and completed from the point of meaning

A. an intonation group

B. confusion

C. equinox

D. a mocking word

Вопрос №155

The first philologist to found the branch of phonetics which is concerned with the study of the purely linguistic aspect of speech sounds

1. I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay

2. L. Bloomfield

3. D. Jones

4. L. Hjelmslev

Вопрос №156

The type of English pronunciation accepted as the teaching norm in our country.

1. Received Pronunciation

2. Scottish Standard English

3. Cockney

4. General American

Вопрос №157

A minimal abstract linguistic unit realized in speech in the form of speech sounds

A. phoneme

B. morpheme

C. word

D. letter

Вопрос №158

Qualitative or quantitative weakening of vowels in unstressed positions

1. reduction

2. assimilation

3. corruption

4. accommodation

Вопрос №159

The view of the phoneme as a “family” of related sounds

1. physical

2. mentalistic

3. functional

4. abstract

Вопрос №160

The view of the phoneme as an ideal “mental image”

1. mentalistic

2. abstract

3. functional

4. physical

Вопрос №161

The view of the phoneme pioneered by L. Hjelmslev.

1. abstract

2. functional

3. mentalistic

4. physical

Вопрос №162

The science of speech sounds considered as elements of language.

1. Phonetics

2. Anthropology

3. Lexicology

4. Grammar

Вопрос №163

Various speech realizations of the phoneme

1. allophones

2. letters

3. invariants

4. syllables

Вопрос №164

The allophones which do not undergo any distinguishable changes in the chain of speech

1. principal

2. principal

3. main

4. real

Вопрос №165

The type of word stress in English

1. dynamic

2. musical

3. strong

4. qualitative

Вопрос №166

Complete loss of sounds

1. elision

2. accommodation

3. assimilation

4. transmission

Вопрос №167

The class of consonants in the production of which a complete obstruction is formed

1. occlusive

2. lateral

3. constrictive

4. medial

Вопрос №168

The class of consonants in the production of which an incomplete obstruction is formed

1. constrictive

2. affricates

3. plosives

4. occlusive

Вопрос №169

The founder of the phoneme theory

1. I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay

2. L. Bloomfield

3. D. Jones

4. L. Hjelmslev

Вопрос №170

The linguist who introduced the term “ Received Pronunciation”

1. D. Jones

2. L. Bloomfield

3. L. Bloomfield

4. D. Jones

Вопрос №171

A minimal pronounceable unit into which sounds show a tendency to cluster of group themselves

A. syllable

B. word

C. phrase

D. phoneme

Вопрос №172

The type of syllables that is fundamental in Russian

1. open

2. closed

3. covered

4. uncovered

Вопрос №173

This sound in English never occurs word finally

1. [h]

2. [k]

3. [l]

4. [z]

Вопрос №174

In this language vowels never follow each other

1. Arabic

2. English

3. Russian

4. Latin

Вопрос №175

Slight degree of nasalization of vowels preceded or followed by nasal sonorants

1. accommodation

2. reduction

3. elision

4. assimilation

Вопрос №176

The articulatory features which form the invariant of the phoneme

1. relevant

2. irrelevant

3. redundant

4. special

Вопрос №177

The type of English Pronunciation where length is not distinctive feature of vowels

1. Standard Scottish Pronunciation

2. Received Pronunciation

3. Southern English

4. Northern English

Вопрос №178

A set of symbols representing speech sounds

A. transcription

B. alphabet

C. phonology

D. phonetics

Вопрос №179

Sounds consisting of voice only

1. vowels

2. consonants

3. allophones

4. phonemes

Вопрос №180

Sounds characterized by close articulation

1. consonants

2. vowels

3. diphthongs

4. monopthongs

Вопрос №181

The adaptive modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant in the speech chain.

1. assimilation

2. reduction

3. accommodation

4. deletion

Вопрос №182

The method of phonological analysis mainly used by phoneticians of structuralist school

1. distributional method

2. semantic method

3. instrumental method

4. acoustic method

Вопрос №183

The type of English Pronunciation where words of French origin have stress on the final syllable