C) Force of articulation.
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1. Name one of the objects of Theoretical Phonetics.
A) parts of speech
B) syllabic structure of words
C) meaning of words
D) word groups.
E) types of sentences
2. Which of the following does not refer to branches of phonetics?
A) Syntactic.
B) Acoustic.
C) Articulatory.
D) Auditory
E) Phonology.
3. What does phonology study?
A) Hearing process.
B) The movements of the speech organs.
C) The functions of the organs of speech.
D) The sound system, syllabic structure, word stress and prosodic features.
E) The system of vowels.
4. Name of the functions of speech sounds.
A) recognitive;
B) acoustic
C) auditory
D) intensity
E) Syntactic
5. Find one of the components of the English phonetic structure.
A) acoustic;
B) accentual
C) syntactical;
D) functional.
E). grammatical
6. What do the four components / phonemes, syllables, accent and intonation/ constitute?
A) the English phonology;
B) the English morphology;
C) the English orthography;
D) the English pronunciation.
E) The English reading rules
7. According to active organs of speech are classified …
A) labial, dental;
B) voiceless, voiced;
C) velar, alveolar;
D) palatal, fricative.
E) voiced, fricative
8. Why are phonemes considered to be material and real?
A) Because we can distinguish meaning of words due to the opposition of phonemes.
B) Because they are basic phonetic units.
C) Because their number is limited.
D) Because their number is unlimited.
E) Because they can not be pronounced.
9. Modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonants in the speech chain is called…
A) accommodation
B) reduction
C) assimilation
D) elision.
E) delision
10. The joining of consonants of a similar or identical nature is called…
A) the on-glide
B) interpenetration of stages
C) the retention stage;
D) the off-glide.
E) assimilation
11. Name one of the degrees of assimilation.
A) regressive
B) incomplete
C) double
D) partial
E) complete
12. What consonants are called lenis?
A) Fortis.
B) Strong.
C) Voiceless.
D) Weak.
E) Central
12. Which of the following can not be treated as articulatory features of English consonants?
A) Type of obstruction.
B) Place of obstruction.
C) Force of articulation.
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D) Tenseness.
E) Place of the active organ of speech
13. What is elision?
A) Degree of nasalization.
B) Weakening of vowels.
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