Territorial Varieties of English Pronunciation

VII: {{248}} Q: The sentence can be completed using your knowledge of theory of the subject.

S: English based pronunciation standards are English English, Welsh English, Scottish English and ###.

VII: {{249}}

S: Every national variety of the language falls into territorial and regional ###.

VII: {{250}} Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: Sociolinguistics deals with language variation caused by social difference and social needs. It studies the ways language interacts with social …

-: reality

-: life

-: world

-: activity

VII: {{251}}

S: Sociolinguistics is the branch of linguistics which studies different aspects of language – phonetics, lexics and grammar with reference to their social functions in the …

-: society

-: mankind

-: nature

-: language

VII: {{252}}

S: In English exists a great diversity in the spoken realization of the …

-: behaviour

-: language

-: science

-: person

VII: {{253}}

S: The literary spoken form has its national pronunciation …

-: standard

-: way

-: method

-: version

VII: {{254}}

S: The national standard of Great Britain is …

-: Received Pronunciation

-: Educated Australian

-: American English

-: Welsh English

VII: {{255}}

S: Standard national pronunciation is sometimes called an “orthoepic …”

-: norm

-: standard

-: version

-: language

VII: {{256}}

S: The national variants of English differ primarily in sound, stress and …

-: intonation

-: pauses

-: rhythm

-: tempo

VII: {{257}}

S: In Canada there are two different national languages – English and …

-: French

-: German

-: Russian

-: Latin

VII: {{258}}

S: If there are two or more national languages on one territory scholars speak about …

-: linguistic disturbance

-: bilingualism

-: monolingualism

-: dialects

VII: {{259}}

S: Dialects are distinguished from each other by differences in pronunciation, grammar and …

-: vocabulary

-: tempo

-: rhythm

-: rate

VII: {{260}}

S: Local accents may be grouped into territorial or area accents, e.g. Yorkshire, Lancashire and … accents form the group of “Northern accent”.

-: London

-: Cheshire

-: Cockney

-: Southern

VII: {{261}}

S: The accent of London dialect became the … of Britain.

-: Received Pronunciation

-: dialect

-: version

-: group

VII: {{262}}

S: The standard pronunciation of a country changes because of lots of influences. It is not …

-: homogeneous

-: normal

-: good

-: accepted

VII: {{263}}

S: The phenomenon “bilingualism” means that a man knows two different …

-: languages

-: accents

-: local variants

-: pronunciations

VII: {{264}}

S: The term “diglossia” denotes a state when a man knows two different …

-: accents

-: languages

-: pronunciations

-: versions

VII: {{265}}

S: British sociolinguists divide the society into: upper class, upper middle class, middle middle class, lower middle class, upper working class, middle working class and …

-: lower working class

-: middle middle working class

-: super working class

-: poor working class

VII: {{266}}

S: Social dialects are varieties spoken by a socially … number of people.

-: wide

-: limited

-: marked

-: known

VII: {{267}}

S: Individual speech of members of the same language community is known as …

-: idiolect

-: slang

-: professional slang

-: colloquial language

VII: {{268}}

S: Any language is able to adapt to the individual needs and the need of the …

-: community

-: president

-: nature

-: economy

VII: {{269}} Q: A proper order of the given countries may be set using the theory of the subject.

S: English spread in the world in the following order:

1: England

2: North America

3: South-eastern Scotland

4: Australia

5: New Zealand

VII: {{270}} Q: The correct answer for the following is:

S: English is the national language of Great Britain, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and …

-: Germany

-: Canada

-: Russia

-: Egypt

VII: {{271}}

S: Over … million people now speak English as first language.

-: 100

-: 200

-: 500

-: 900

VII: {{272}}

S: English was originally spoken in England and south-eastern …

-: Scotland

-: Ireland

-: Wales

-: Canada

VII: {{273}}

S: In the 17^th and 18^th centuries English was brought to North …

-: Russia

-: America

-: Germany

-: France

VII: {{274}}

S: Later in the 18^th and 19^th centuries English was exported to Australia and …

-: New Zealand

-: Russia

-: Canada

-: America

VII: {{275}}

S: Nowadays there are two main types of English: English English and …

-: Welsh English

-: American English

-: New Zealand English

-: Cockney

VII: {{276}}

S: American-based pronunciation falls into American English and …

-: Canadian English

-: Australian English

-: Irish English

-: New Zealand English

VII: {{277}}

S: English-based pronunciation falls into British English, Irish English, Australian English, …

-: New Zealand English

-: American English

-: Canadian English

-: American English

VII: {{278}}

S: English English falls into Southern and … accents.

-: Western

-: Northern

-: Eastern

-: South-eastern

VII: {{279}}

S: Scottish English falls into Regional Varieties and …

-: Educated Scottish English

-: Learned Pronunciation

-: Received Pronunciation

-: Good Language

VII: {{280}}

S: Received Pronunciation is a social marker, a … accent of an Englishman.

-: prestige

-: bad

-: good

-: low

VII: {{281}}

S: Received Pronunciation is taught at … schools.

-: public

-: bad

-: black

-: local

VII: {{282}}

S: Only … per cent of the population of England speak RP.

-: 3-5

-: 20

-: 50

-: 90

VII: {{283}}

S: We can distinguish 3 main types of RP: conservative, general and …

-: low

-: advanced

-: colloquial

-: slow

VII: {{284}}

S: Advanced RP forms are mainly used by … people.

-: young

-: old

-: modern

-: old-fashioned

VII: {{285}}

S: Conservative RP forms are mainly used by … people.

-: young

-: old

-: modern

-: slow

VII: {{286}}

S: Changes in the standard may be traced mostly in the speech of the … people.

-: young

-: old

-: educated

-: old-fashioned

VII: {{287}}

S: Considerable changes are observed in the … of English.

-: sound system

-: grammar

-: lexics

-: tempo

VII: {{288}}

S: The variability concerns mainly...

-: words

-: vowels

-: consonants

-: grammar

VII: {{289}}

S: There is a tendency for some diphthongs to become …

-: shorter

-: longer

-: pure

-: rapid

VII: {{290}}

S: There is a tendency for short vowels to become …

-: longer

-: shorter

-: pure

-: rapid

VII: {{291}}

S: There is a tendency to use intrusive … before a following vowel.

-: k

-: r

-: l

-: p

VII: {{292}}

S: Some English accents are …, where [r] is introduced in many positions.

-: rhotic

-: bad

-: pure

-: educated

VII: {{293}}

S: Many non-educated, non-RP speakers use [n] in the suffix “-ing” instead of …

-: [ŋ]

-: [i]

-: [g]

-: [∂]

VII: {{294}}

S: The situation in the USA may be characterized as exoglossic, i.e. having several languages on the same territory, the balance being in favour of …

-: American English

-: British English

-: French

-: Canadian

VII: {{295}}

S: American English is a … of British English.

-: dialect

-: national variant

-: accent

-: form

VII: {{296}}

S: In the USA three main types of cultivated speech are recognized: the Eastern type, the Southern type and …

-: the Western type

-: the Northern type

-: the Southern-Western type

-: the Northern-Eastern type

VII: {{297}}

S: General American pronunciation is known to be the … standard of the USA.

-: grammar

-: pronunciation

-: vocabulary

-: modern

VII: {{298}}

S: There is … strict division of vowels into long and short in General American.

-: no

-: partially

-: little

-: strong

VII: {{299}}

S: 2/3 of American population pronounce … and 1/3 omit it.

-: [r]

-: [b]

-: [i:]

-: [l]

VII: {{300}}

S: Vowels in American English are …

-: nasalized

-: not pronounced

-: palatalized

-: omitted