III Match the parts of the definition
Тесты на проверку остаточных знаний
По дисциплине «Основы теории первого иностранного языка. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка» ООП бакалавриата по направлению подготовки 035700 Лингвистика для профиля «Теория и методика преподавания иностранных языков и культур»
Test 1
I. Choose the correct variant.
1. Which aspect of speech sounds is connected with the work of the speech organs?
a) auditory; b) articulatory; c) acoustic.
2. To what level of the language does the phoneme belong?
a) lexical; b) syntactic; c) phonemic.
3. Which of the following cases of assimilation is progressive?
a) nasal plosion; b) labialization; c) loss of aspiration.
4. The consonant in the articulation of which the air escapes through the nasal cavity is called:
a) lingual; b) nasal; c) oral.
5. A syllable which begins in a consonant and ends in a vowel is called:
a) fully open; b) covered and open; c) uncovered and closed.
6. The greater degree of prominence given to one or more syllables in a word is called:
a) the phoneme; b) the allophone; c) the stress.
7. The English language is characterized by:
a) free word-stress; b) fixed word-stress; c) no stress.
8. Which of the nuclear tones starts low and rises to a medium pitch or a little lower.?
a) the High-Fall; b) the Mid-Level; c) the Low-Rise.
9. The stressed and unstressed syllables beginning with the first stressed syllable up to the last stressed syllable in a syntagm are called:
a) the pre-head; b) the head; c) the tail.
10. Which type of Standard pronunciation is adopted by the BBC?
a) Australian; b) Canadian; c) English.
II. AGREE OR DISAGREE
1. A combination of sounds which imitate noises produced in nature, by things, people and animals is called alternation.
2. Phonetics is closely connected with grammar.
3. The number of actually pronounced speech sounds is much greater than the number of phonemes.
4. If an allophone of one phoneme is changed for an allophone of another phoneme the mistake is phonological.
5. There are more consonant phonemes in Russian than in English.
6. Phonetic syllables always coincide with orthographic syllables.
7. Traditionally in the English language two degrees of word stress – primary and weak are distinguished.
8. The English language is characterized by the dynamic word stress.
9. Emphatic pauses serve to make especially prominent certain parts the utterance, to attach special importance to the word, which follows it.
10. The Australian type of pronunciation is based on the American standard pronunciation
III Match the parts of the definition
1. Speech melody a) is the relative speed with which sentences are pronounced in connected speech.
2. Sentence stress b) is a special colouring of the voice which shows the speaker’s emotions.
3. Tempo c) is a regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables within more or less equal intervals of time.
4. Timbre d) is the variations in the pitch of the voice in connected speech.
5. Rhythm e) is the greater degree of prominence of one or more syllables among other syllables in the same sentence.
Test 2
I. Choose the correct variant.
1. Which aspect of speech sounds is connected with the sound waves?
a) auditory; b) articulatory; c) acoustic.
2. With what non-linguistic science is phonetics connected?
a) chemistry b) anatomy c) algebra
3. The strong element of English diphthongs is called:
a) the monophthong; b) the glide; c) the nucleus.
4. The minimal language unit is
a) the phoneme b) the word c) the affix
5. A syllable which begins in a vowel and ends in a consonant is called:
a) fully open; b) uncovered and open; c) uncovered and closed.
6. The stress which falls on a syllable which occupies in all the words of the language one and the same position in relation to the beginning or end of a word is called:
a) shifting; b) fixed; c) free.
7. Which of the nuclear tones starts at a high pitch and falls to a very low pitch.
a) the Low-Rise b) the Mid-Level c) the High-Fall
8. Which part of the syntagm includes all unstressed syllables following the nucleus.
a) the head b) the pre-head c) the tail
9. Canadian pronunciation standard is based on:
a) the English pronunciation; b) the American pronunciation;
c) both the English and the American pronunciation.
10. The words of French origin in General American tend to have stress:
a) on the final syllable; b) on the initial syllable;
c) both on the final and on the initial syllable.