Syllabic and Accentual Structure of English Words

V: {{121}} Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: Syllable is a … pronounceable unit.

-: minimal

-: maximum

-: lexical

-: phonological

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S: Syllable can be studied on … levels.

-: 3

-: 4

-: 5

-: 6

V: {{123}} Q: The sentence can be completed using your knowledge of theory of the subject.

S: Syllable can be studied on acoustic, articulatory, auditory, ### level.

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S: Syllable formation in English is based on the phonological opposition vowel - ###.

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S: Vowels are usually syllabic but consonants are ###.

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Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: The syllabic type vowel + consonant is called …

-: open

-: closed

-: covered

-: uncovered

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S: The syllabic type consonant + vowel is called …

-: open

-: closed

-: covered

-: uncovered

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S: The syllabic type CV (C) is called …

-: open

-: covered

-: closed

-: uncovered

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S: The syllabic type V (C) is called …

-: open

-: uncovered

-: closed

-: covered

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S: The length of the diphthong is … if it’s closed by a voiceless plosive.

-: shorter

-: the shortest

-: longer

-: the longest

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S: There cannot be more than … within one syllable.

-: one vowel

-: two vowels

-: three vowels

-: four vowels

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S: Word final consonants are normally …

-: weak

-: strong

-: short

-: long

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S: The sonorants [l], [m], [n] are … if they are preceded by noise consonants, e.g. little.

-: syllabic

-: non-syllabic

-: vocalic

-: long

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S: Prominence in speech is a … term than stress.

-: broader

-: inner

-: narrower

-: more linguistic

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S: Languages are also differentiated according to the placement of …

-: consonants

-: word stress

-: vowels

-: sounds

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S: Languages may have a fixed stress and a … stress.

-: free

-: syllabic

-: logical

-: phonetic

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S: In French the stress falls on the … syllable of the word.

-: first

-: last

-: middle

-: initial

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S: In Finnish and Czech the stress is fixed on the … syllable.

-: first

-: last

-: final

-: middle

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S: Borrowed words can retain the … stresses.

-: narrow

-: original

-: free

-: broad

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S: In languages with a free stress its place isn’t confined to a speech position in the …

-: word

-: sentence

-: phrase

-: text

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S: The word stress in English is not only free but also …

-: fixed

-: shifting

-: prominent

-: main

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S: There are actually as many degrees of stress in a word as there are …

-: syllables

-: consonants

-: letters

-: diphthongs

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S: The primary stress in a word is the …

-: free

-: strongest

-: weakest

-: fixed

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S: Unstressed syllables are supposed to have … stress.

-: weak

-: strong

-: fixed

-: free

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S: The stress may be primary and …

-: main

-: secondary

-: weak

-: stable

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S: A great number of words of Anglo-Saxon origin are …

-: long

-: monosyllabic

-: polysyllabic

-: stressed

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S: In Russian word stress marks both word-building and …

-: phonemes

-: word-formation

-: allophones

-: letters

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S: Word stress in English marks only …

-: word-building

-: word-formation

-: allophones

-: intonation

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S: With the quickening of the speed the vowels are reduced, the secondary stress may be …

-: strong

-: dropped

-: accentuated

-: narrow

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S: The words which are usually stressed in a phrase are … words.

-: notional

-: auxiliary

-: form

-: modal

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S: Word stress of English performs … functions.

-: 2

-: 3

-: 4

-: 5

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S: Word stress performs the constitutive, identificatory, … function.

-: distinctive

-: recognitive

-: word-building

-: phonological

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S: Most of compound adjectives have … equal stresses.

-: two

-: three

-: five

-: fixed

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S: Compound numerals have naturally … equal stresses.

-: two

-: three

-: five

-: fixed

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S: Isolated consonants do not form … as vocabulary items.

-: words

-: syllables

-: phrases

-: sentences

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S: According to their accentual weight syllables may be classified as stressed and …

-: closed

-: unstressed

-: open

-: covered

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S: The oldest among the theories of the syllable is the so-called … theory.

-: sonority

-: expiratory

-: articulatory

-: mechanical

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S: In syllable division the character of the … of a consonant is more important than that of the beginning.

-: end

-: middle

-: beginning

-: root

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S: The … character of the vowels determines syllable division.

-: sonorant

-: free

-: final

-: lexical

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S: A historically short English monophthong under stress is …

-: long

-: checked

-: open

-: closed

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S: A shifting stress is one which falls on different morphemes in different grammatical forms of a word or in different … from one and the same root.

-: derivatives

-: syllables

-: morphemes

-: phonemes

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S: Free word stress presupposes complete …

-: structure

-: unpredictability

-: variation

-: form

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S: In English there are words where accentuation has the … factor.

-: rhythmical

-: semantic

-: lexical

-: word-forming

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S: Recognitive function consists in the correct accentuation of words, which facilitates their recognition and...

-: comprehension

-: distinction

-: rhythmicality

-: structure

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S: Secondary stresses in Russian are very …

-: not optional

-: rare

-: often used

-: familiar

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S: The typical syllabic structure of the English word is …

-: closed

-: open

-: covered

-: uncovered

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S: The maximum number of syllables in an English word can be …

-: 1

-: 8

-: 7

-: 5

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S: The accentual structure of the Russian language is …

-: free

-: fixed

-: restricted

-: open

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S: The accent of the French words is called …

-: restricted

-: fixed

-: free

-: open

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S: The accent of the Japanese language is called …

-: musical

-: dynamic

-: open

-: closed

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S: The accent of the Russian language is called …

-: musical

-: dynamic

-: open

-: closed