Functional Aspect of Speech Sounds

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 743.

Problems of Phonostylistics

1. The subject matter of phonostylistics is

a. theory of word

b. the use of grammatical means in a particular situation

c. variations in language use on phonetic level

2. Variation in language use depends on

a. a set of extralinguistic factors

b. classification of functional styles

c. linguistic theory

3. Mark linguistics factors of communication

a. purpose, participants, setting

b. vocabulary, grammar and phonetic means

c. topic

4. The style modifying factors

a. the purpose of communication

b. the speaker's attitude

c. the form of communication

d. the topic

e. the degree of formality

f. the degree of spontaneity

g. the setting

a. a c d e b. b c e f c. b c f g

5. The factor, determining the distinction of public and non-public oral texts is

a. the topic

b. the speaker's attitude

c. the number of addressees

6. The factor, determining the distinction of spontaneous and non-spontaneous speech is

a. the topic

b. the attitude of the speaker

c. delimitation

7.The Phoneme is the smallest

a. meaningful unit

b. naming unit

c. distinctive unit

8.Mark the section breaking the right sequence in the chart of relationship between the phoneme and the speechsound

c. phonostylistic variation

a.phoneme b.phone d. dialectal variation f.allophone

e. individual variation

8. Subsidiary allophones are the ones which

a. are rarely used

b. have definite changes in the articulation of allophones under the influence of neighboring sounds in speech

c. the one which does not undergo any distinguishable change in the chain of speech
9.Phonological mistakes are a replacement by an allophone of

a. another phoneme affecting the meaning of the word

b. the same phoneme affecting the meaning of the word

c. the same phoneme not affecting the meaning of the word

10.In terms of mentalistic approach phoneme is

a. an ideal image or target at which the speaker aims

b. a family of related similar sounds with complimentary distribution

c. the minimal sound unit with a distinctive function

11. Abstract view of the phoneme as essentially independant of the acoustic and physiological properties was developed by

a. Copenhagen Linguistic Circle

b. Prague Phonological School

c. Kazan Phonological School

12. The phoneme is the unity of 3 aspects -

a. articulatory, acoustic, functional

b. phonetic, semantic, structural

c. syllabic, accentual and allophonic

13. Allophones have

a. contrastive distribution

b. complimentary distribution

c. simple functions

14. Contrastive distribution is

a. mutually exclusive positions of different sounds

b. mutually exclusive positions of similar sounds

c. the same positions of different sounds

15. Mark the wrong section in the chart of classification of English consonants \ M.A.Sokolova\

consonants

noise consonants sonorants

a. occlusive b.constrictive c. occlusive-constrictive d. occlusive e. Constrictive

16. Mark the wrong section in the chart of classification of English consonants according to the place of obstruction

consonants

labial lingual glottal

a.bilingual b.labiodental c. forelingual d.mediolingual e.backlingual

17. Criteria of vowel classificatory description

a. place of articulation

b. stability of articulation

c. tongue position

d. lip position

e. character of the vowel end

f. tenseness

g. work of the vocal cords

h. length

a. a b d e f b. b c d e f c. b c d e g

18. Phonemic neutralization is

a. non-distinctive features of phonemes

b. loss of one or more distinctive feature of a phoneme in a weak position

c. the use of the neutral sound [ ∂ ]