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.