II. Mark correct definitions

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Territorial Varieties of English Pronunciation

29.British English Accents

a. English English

b. Canadian

c. Welsh

d. Scottish

e. Irish

f. Northern Ireland English

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

30. “King's English”

a. the ruling class accent developed into the present day British standard

b. pronunciation standard introduce by Queen Victoria

c. Queen Elizabeth's manner of speaking

31. RP now is the

a. regional accent within Britain

b. regionless accent of Ireland

c. pronunciation standard of British English

31. Accomodation is

a. interchange of “vowel+consonant” or “consonant+vowel” type

b. adaptive modification of a consonant to a neighboring consonant

c. qualitative and quantitative weakening of vowels in unstressed positions

32.Deletion is

a. interchange of “vowel+consonant” or “consonant+vowel” type

b. complete loss of sounds (vowels or consonants) in connected speech

c. qualitative and quantitative weakening of vowels in unstressed positions

33. Morphophonemics is the study of the

a. the phonetic structures in morphology b. the relationship between phonemes and morphemes

c. morphophonology

34. Archiphoneme \ N.S.Trubetskoy \ is

a. diphthongs

b. affricates

c. a combination of distinctive features of two phonemes into one in variations

35. Prosody is the term substitute for the term

a, word stress

b. intonation

c. syllable devision

36.Enclictics

a. the stressed syllables

b.unstressed syllables before the stressed one

c.unstressed syllables after the stressed one