Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words or word combinations.

1.The phoneme is an abstractional language unit as it is an a)… of and a b)… from a number of c)… … which are its variants.

2.The phoneme is a a)… unit because in speech it serves to perform three functions such as b)…, c)… and d)… .

3.The phoneme is a material, real and objective a)… because it really exists in b)… … in the c)… form of d)… … which have definite e)… and f)… features, independent of the g)… of individual members of a given language community.

4.The functionally a)… bundle of b)… … is called the c)… of the phoneme which is d)… in the mind of the speaker.

Choose the correct variant.

1.The functionally relevant bundle of articulatory features is called:

d)the invariant;

e)the distribution;

f)the allophone.

2.If allophones of different phonemes occur in the same phonetic context such type of distribution is called:

a)free variation;

b)contrastive;

c)complementary.

3.The articulatory features which serve to distinguish meaning are called:

a)principle;

b)typical;

c)relevant.

4.The allophones which appear due to the influence of neighbouring speech sounds are called:

a)principle;

b)combinatory;

c)relevant.

5.Allophones of the phoneme:

a)are not predictable;

b)are predictable by the types of distribution;

c)are predictable by the cases of assimilation and accommodation.

6.Allophones of the same phoneme:

a)have some articulatory features in common;

b)have no articulatory features in common;

c)have all articulatory features in common.

TOPIC 3

English vowels and consonants in the phonological

System

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Explain what is meant by the following statements	\|	The main principles of vowel and consonant formation. The articulatory and auditory difference between vowel and consonant phonemes.

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