Choose the correct variant.

1.Which type of Received Pronunciation is adopted by the BBC?

a)advanced;

b)conservative;

c)general.

2.The term “Southern English pronunciation” means that:

a)this type of standard pronunciation is restricted to the particular locality;

b)this type of standard pronunciation is based on the particular dialect;

c)this type of standard pronunciation is spoken by educated people in the South of Britain.

3.Which regional variant of American pronunciation is close to the Southern English pronunciation?

a)the Western type of pronunciation;

b)the Eastern type of pronunciation;

c)the Southern type of pronunciation.

4.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.

5.The suffixes -ory, -ary, -mony of polysyllabic words in Received Pronunciation have:

a)secondary stress;

b)tertiary stress;

c)weak stress.

6.The phoneme [r] in General American differs from Received Pronunciation:

a)only in the articulation;

b)only in the distribution;

c)both in the articulation and distribution.

7.Individual speech of members of the same language community is called:

a)social dialect;

b)idiolect;

c)supralect.

Group Project

The connection of phonetics with non-linguistic sciences

UNIT II

SEGMENTAL PHONETICS

TOPIC 1

The Development of phoneme Theory

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Practical tasks.	\|	Main trends in phoneme theory.

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