Section II

The functional value of a syllable in English

The units that constitute the phonetic system of a language

По теоретической фонетике английского языка

для студентов III курса факультета иностранных языков

специальность: 033200 – иностранный язык

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Year 3 ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Theoretical Phonetics

Section I. Use “a, b… j” to define:

a. Speech sounds ___ f. Affixes ___

b. Letters ___ g. Words ___

c. Morphemes ___ h. Syllables ___

d. Word accent ___ i. Endings ___

e. Intonation ___ j. Staves ___

2) the primary aim of phonetics?

a. to study how speech sounds are made, transmitted and received by human beings

b. to provide information for the analysis of any language

c. to render remarkably accurate message

d. to acquire a person’s high position

3) what accounts for the opinion that RP (with certain variations) is recognized as the orthoepic norm of British English

a. social acceptability

b. conservatism and pretentiousness

c. wide currency

d. conformity to the main phonetic tendencies

4) the auditory (perceptible) correlates of frequency, intensity and duration of speech sounds:

a. pause ___ e. silence ___

b. pitch ___ f. length ___

c. breath ___ g. puff ___

d. loudness ___ h. glottal stop ___

5) what opposition, which exists in the English vowel system, is lacking in the Russian system?

a. between free and checked vowels

b. between back and front vowels

c. between high and low vowels

d. between vowels and consonants

a. A syllable is of considerable relevance to the task of phonetic and a phonological description.

b. A syllable is a unit that is always larger than a single segment.

c. In English there can be no syllable without a vowel.

d. Syllables can be identified on the basis of the amount of the articulatory effort to produce them.

7) the main tendencies which make the incidence of the English Free Word accent more predictable than in Russian.

a. graphic ___ e. rhythmic ___

b. modal ___ f. general ___

c. recessive ___ g. effective ___

d. modern ___

8) the nature of accent in English?

a. primary dynamic

b. primary musical

c. primary secondary

d. primary tertiary

9) the main factors which condition the distribution of stresses in an English utterance

a. Segmental ___ e. Rhythmical ___

b. Semantic ___ f. Attitudinal ___

c. Phonic ___ g. Grammatical ___

d. Perceptional ___

10) the main types of scales that are generally distinguished by the phoneticians depending on the pitch level of the starting and ending points of stressed syllables of the Head (the intonation contour)

a. Descending ___ e. Ascending ___

b. Defining ___ f. Claiming ___

c. Dependent ___ g. Level ___

d. Appealing ___

Decide whether the following statements are true [T] or false [F] according to the Phonetic Theory of English

1. Being identical typologically, the speech sounds are not identical articulatory. ___

2. The articulatory basis of a language doesn’t condition the phonetic system of the language. ___

3. Both vowels and consonants have the same acoustic and auditory

properties. ___

4. Allophones of one and the same phoneme may occur in exactly the same phonetic context. ___

5. A syllable can be considered as a unit of the suprasegmental level of the phonetic system.

unit. ___

6. The fundamental syllable type in English is the open syllable and in Russian is the close one. ___

7. In languages with dynamic word stress prominence of a stressed syllable is mainly achieved by variations in pitch level. ___

8. English word stress is of a complex nature. Its relative prominence is usually created by an interaction of intensity, frequency and duration. ___

9. Intonation and prosody of the utterance are equivalent notions, though the notion of prosody in general is broader than that of intonation. ___

10. The prosody (intonation) of an utterance can carry independent meanings of its own, regardless of the words and the grammatical structure of the utterance. ___

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