47. Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built:

48. Which word-building ways are similar to compounding?

49. Affixation, word-composition and conversion are:

50.Shortening is: Shortening is the process and the result of forming a word out of the initial elements (letters, morphemes) of a word combination.

Shortenings are produced in 2 ways:

To make a new word from a syllable (rarer two) of the original words. The latter may lose it’s beginning (telephone – phone, defence - fence), it’s ending (holidays – hols, advertisement- ad), or both the beginning and the ending (influenza – flu, refrigerator - fridge)

To make a new word from the initial letters of a word group: U.N.O – United Nation Organization, B.B.C. and etc.

51. Semantically morphemes are classified as:

52. Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun?

53. Check for the type of word-formation in the following words: moo, splash, buzz, cuckoo, bubble

54. Which of these nouns are derived form the verbs?

55. An infix is: Infixes (is a derivational affix which is placed within the root and changes

the grammatical category of a word but it practically never use

in English) (stand-stood)

56. Derivational affixes serve: derivational (help to form new words with the same root)

57. Word-formation is the process of creating:

58. Conversion is a word- building process in which words are built:. which is the word formation process whereby a word of one part of speech converts into a word of another part of speech, e.g., the noun

Noun to Verb Conversion

The most productive form of conversion in English is noun to verb conversion. The following list provides examples of verbs converted from nouns:

Noun – Verb

access – to access

bottle – to bottle

can – to can

closet – to closet

email – to email

Verb to Noun Conversion

Another productive form of conversion in English is verb to noun conversion. The following list provides examples of nouns converted from verbs:

Verb – Noun

to alert – alert

to attack – attack

to call – call

to clone – clone

to command – command

to cover – cover

to cry – cry

to experience – experience

to fear – fear

Theoretical phonetics.

1. We have intrusive “r” in:

2. What word combination is the example of vowel alternation?

3 . In the word “needle” the peculiarity of CC transition is called…

4 .Lingual consonants are subdivided into:

.5 .Assimilation is…:

6 .Compound adjectives, both elements of which are equally important( good-looking, wll-known) have…

7 . The type of word accent French and Kazakh belong to is…

8 .Chinese, Korean, Japanese belong to the … type of accent:

9 .Verbs with postpositions of adverbial character “go on, pick up, sot down” have…

10. Vowels in English are classified into rounded, unrounded according to:

11. The word “pin” [pin] is spelt according to … principle:

12. Which system of transcription is used to write personal name of phonetics “Щерба” ?

13. British phoneticians distinguish the following degrees of word – stress:

14. The typical syllabic structure is of:

15. From the view point of syllable division syllables are classified as…

16. According to their length syllables may be:

17. According to their accentual weight syllables may be:

18. The main criteria in classifying vowels in English are:.

19. According to the stability of articulation vowels are classified into:

20. Vowels in English are classified into rounded, unrounded according to:

21. Which ways of stressing are used in English

22. What does sentence stress depend on?

23.”What’s the time?”, he asked . What is the tone of he asked if the question ends on a rising tone?

24. What is the tone of the adjunct qualifying he asked etc. when this precedes the quotation? For example: Then he asked, wondering what the answer might be:”Why did you do it”

25. What are the main organs of speech?

26What words have double stresses?

27Point out the main parts of intonation pattern

28What basic nuclear tones of English do you know?

2What types of stress do you know?

30According to the stability of articulation vowels are classified into:

31. How is “clear l” pronounced, how “dark l”?

32. Is there a difference between the l’s in build and built?

33.Do you know any alveolar fricatives?

34.Is her pronounced the same in : her book, her aunt?

35.What do we mean by “rolled r”

36.Can you give a rule as to when the letter r is pronounced?

37. Do we always hear the same r in row and in throw ?if not, what is the differences?

38.Compare the first and the last t in tart

39. Whish of the plosives p,t,k have a voice counterpart?

40In which combinations of sounds will you often hear the glottal plosive?

41. How many sounds are there in the word raw ?

42. What is the main difference between the first sound and the last in the word raw?

43. What is a vowel?

44.Which sounds are more sonorous, consonants or vowels?

145. Is there anything between the tip and the front of the tongue?

46.Compare the length of the vowels in bead and beat.

47. What is it a diphthong?

48. How many consonant are there in yes, web?

49. What is a nasalized sound?

50. Is a voice consonant strong or weak?

51.What does phonetics deal with?

52.How many vowels are there in Еnglish?

53.Linking “r” is given in …

54.Syllable is…..

55.What is known as intonation?

56.Accidental rise is in the sentence….

57.What sonorants of English do you know?

58.What are the main organs of speech?

59.What words have double stresses?

60.Point out the main parts of intonation pattern

61.How many sounds are there in the English language?

62.What are the vocal cords?

63. Which sounds are more sonorous?

64.What is the sonority of a sound?

65.Which of the following vowels has the greatest natural sonority?

66.Where are dental sounds produced?

67.Where are labial sounds produced?

68.Which sounds are usually the syllable bearers

69.Do you know another consonant besides [h] of which thereare as many varieties as there are vowels?

70.Mention a word in which initial h is not pronounced.

71. Syllable is defined as:

72. Phonetics is defined as …..

73. Speech sounds have the following aspects:

74. Functions of intonation are:

75. What are the main organs of speech?

76.What words have double stresses?

77.Point out the main parts of intonation pattern

78.What basic nuclear tones of English do you know?

79.What types of srtess do you know?

80.Phonetics is a branch of ….

81. Phonetics means …..

82. The aspects of speech sounds:

83.The definition of syllable is:

84. The main organs of speech are:

85.The main parts of intonation pattern

86.The basic nuclear tones of English :

87.Phonetics is a part of ….