II. AGREE OR DISAGREE

1. Phoneme is the minimum language unit.

2. Variants of the same phoneme can differentiate the meaning

3. Sound interchange helps to distinguish singular and plural forms of some nouns.

4. Voiceless consonants are produced with the vocal cords taken apart and not vibrating.

5. There are more vowel phonemes in English than in Russian.

6. L.V. Shcherba investigated the structure and formation of the syllable.

7. Only vowels in English can form syllables.

8. The word stress performs constitutive, recognitive and distinctive functions.

9. Tempo is the component of intonation which consists in the greater prominence of some words among other words of the utterance.

10. English and American types of pronunciation do not differ from each other.

 

 

III Match the parts of the definition

1. Descriptive phonetics a) studies all the sound-producing possibilities of the human organs of speech and the ways they are used for purposes of human communication

 

2. Historical phonetics b) studies the ways in which phonetic structures change in response to different social functions

 

3. General phonetics c) compares the phonetic systems of several languages

 

4. Comparative phonetics d) traces the changes in the phonetic system of a given language at different stages of its historical development

 

5. Sociophonetics e) describes the phonetic system of a particular language at a particular period

 

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Test 1

 

I. Choose the correct variant.

1. b) 2. c) 3. c) 4. b) 5. b)

6. c) 7. a) 8. c) 9) b) 10. c)

 

II. AGREE OR DISAGREE

1. false 2. true 3. true 4. true 5. true

6. false 7. false 8. true 9. true 10. false

 

III Match the parts of the definition

1. d) 2. e) 3. a) 4. b) 5. c)

 

 

Test 2

 

I. Choose the correct variant.

1. c) 2. b) 3. c) 4. a) 5. c)

6. b) 7. c) 8. c) 9) c) 10. a)

 

II. AGREE OR DISAGREE

1. true 2. false 3. false 4. true 5. true

6. false 7. false 8. true 9. true 10. false

 

III Match the parts of the definition

1. c) 2. d) 3. a) 4. e) 5. b)

 

 

Test 3

 

I. Choose the correct variant.

1. a) 2. b) 3. b) 4. c) 5. a)

6. b) 7. ) c 8. b) 9) b) 10. a)

 

II. AGREE OR DISAGREE

1. true 2.false 3.true 4. true 5. true

6. true 7. false 8. true 9. false 10. false

 

III Match the parts of the definition

1. e) 2. d) 3. a) 4. c) 5. b)