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What branch of phonetics studies the functional aspect of speech sounds: |
Physiological phonetics. |
Phonology. |
Acoustic phonetics. |
General phonetics. |
Comparative phonetics. |
Vocalization of “r’ is: |
a narrowing & diphthongization of long vowels |
a gradual neutralization of unstressed vowels |
the change of the consonant sound “r’ into a vowel |
appearance of affricates |
appearance |
What intonational function manifests itself in the fact that each syllable in the sentence has a certain pitch & can’t exist without it? |
constitutive function; |
distinctive function; |
recognitive function; |
principal function; |
all of them; |
Lexicology is the part of linguistics which studies: |
The vocabulary of a language. |
The grammatical system of a language. |
The phonemic shape of words. |
The history of a language. |
The relations between the language and social life. |
Lexicology is closely connected with: |
All the above mentioned branches of linguistics. |
Phonetics. |
Grammar. |
Stylistics. |
The history of the language. |
Semasiology is the branch of Lexicology that deals with: |
The study of word meaning. |
The phonemic shape of words. |
The grammatical function of words. |
A positional mobility of words within a sentence. |
Differentiation of vocabulary according to the sphere of communication. |
Phraseology studies: |
Free word-combinations and phraseological units. |
Graphical abbreviations. |
Synonyms and antonyms. |
Lexical homonyms. |
Phrasal verbs. |
Etymology investigates: |
The origin and history of a word and its true meaning. |
Peculiarities of the English vocabulary. |
Different types of compounds. |
General problems of the theory of the word. |
Different kinds of dictionaries. |
Lexicography deals with: |
The theory and practice of compiling dictionaries. |
The word-making process in English. |
Classification of loan words. |
Variants of the English language. |
The etymological background of the English word stock. |
A morpheme is: |
The smallest indivisible two-facet language unit. |
The basic unit of a language. |
A cliche. |
A collocation. |
An abbreviation. |
Semantically morphemes are classified as: |
Root and affixation morphemes |
Free morphemes. |
Semi-free morphemes. |
Bound morphemes. |
Semi-bound morphemes. |
Structurally morphemes fall into: |
Free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes. |
Root morphemes. |
Stem morphemes. |
Prefixational morphemes. |
Suffixational morphemesK) |
The root of the word is: |
The basic part of a word to which affixes are added. |
The basic unit of a language. |
A derivational affix. |
A grammatical paradigm. |
A derived stem. |
A stem is: |
An unchanged part. |
A functional affix. |
A derivational affix. |
A prefix. |
A suffix. |
A prefix is: |
A derivational morpheme preceding the root. |
A derivational morpheme following the stem. |
A common element of words within a word-family. |
An affix placed within the word. |
A combining form. |
A suffix is: |
A derivational morpheme following the stem. |
A derivational morpheme preceding the root. |
A common element of words within a word-family. |
An affix placed within the word;. |
A combining form. |
An infix is: |
An affix placed within the word. |
A derivationl morpheme preceding the root. |
A derivational morpheme following the stem. |
A common element of words within a word-family. |
A combining form. |
Functional affixes: |
Convey grammatical meaning. |
Form different words. |
Provide the structural completeness of a word-group. |
Convey emotional components of meaning. |
Form blendings. |
Derivational affixes serve: |
To form different words. |
To convey grammatical meaning. |
To build different forms of one and the same word. |
To form only neologisms. |
To connect parts of blendings. |
A paradigm is: |
The system of the grammatical forms of a word. |
The system of the lexical meanings of a word. |
The system of the morphological changes of a word. |
The system of the semantic changes of a word. |
The system of the lexico-grammatical changes of a word. |
Word-formation is the process of creating: |
New words. |
Root morphemes. |
Affixation morphemes. |
Grammatical forms of a word. |
Bound stem. |
Affixation is the formation of words: |
By adding derivational affixes to stems. |
By joining two or more stems. |
By combining parts of two words. |
By reducing a word to one of its parts. |
By shortening a written word or phrase. |
Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built: |
By means of changing the paradigm. |
By joining two or more stems together. |
By adding word-building affixes to stems. |
By combining parts of two words. |
By shortening a written word or phrase. |
Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built: |
By joining two or more stems. |
By adding derivational affixes to stems. |
By means of changing the paradigm. |
By combining parts of two words. |
By clipping the beginning or the end of the word. |
What is clipping?: |
The result of reduction of a word to one of its parts. |
The result of adding affixes to free stems. |
The result of merging parts of words into one new word. |
The result of subtracting a real or supposed suffix from existing words. |
The result of shortening and compounding. |
Which word-building ways are similar to compounding?: |
Affixation. |
Sound imitation. |
Conversion. |
Back formation. |
Blending and reduplication. |
What is blending?: |
Telescoping, reduplication. |
Sound and stress interchange. |
Back-formation. |
Sound imitation. |
Affixation. |
Which word -building type is similar to conversion?: |
Adjectivization, adverbialization, substantivization. |
Blending, telescoping, reduplication. |
Sound and stress imitation. |
Initial and final clipping. |
Lexical and graphical abbreviations. |
The basic aim of the derivational analysis of the word structure is: |
To state the derivational pattern of the given word. |
To point out the number of morphemes. |
To define the degree of derivation of the primary stem. |
To state the meaning of the word. |
To find out the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning. |
Affixation, word-composition and conversion are: |
Principal and productive ways of forming new words. |
Non-productive ways of word-formation. |
Minor types of word-building. |
Morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words. |
Word-building patterns. |
Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are: |
Minor types of word making. |
Productive ways of word-building. |
Principal ways of word-building. |
Ways of making up phraselogical units. |
Ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words. |
Shortening is: |
A significant subtraction of a word. |
A common element of words. |
A derived word. |
The smallest meaningful unit. |
Blending. |
An allomorph is: |
A positional variant of a morpheme. |
An affix placed within a word. |
An ultimate constituent of a word. |
An association of a given meaning with a given sound. |
A common element of words. |
Hybrids are: |
Words made up of affixes from two or more different languages. |
Idiomatic compounds. |
Removal of all functional and derivational elements. |
Words which are made after existing patterns. |
The smallest meaningful units. |
Compound words are: |
Words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms. |
Class of lexical elements possessing the same lexico-grammatical meaning. |
Nouns denoting some feelings and state. |
Derivational morphemes standing before the root. |
The smallest meaningful unit. |
Derivational compounds are: |
Compound words that have affixes. |
Words which provide the structural completeness of a word-group. |
Derivational morphemes standing before the root. |
Elements of set expressions which are structurally necessary. |
Words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages. |
Which of the following words are derived compounds?: |
Well-formed, dishwasher, three-cornered. |
Boyfriend, back-formation, wallflower. |
Overestimate, subdivided, pseudo-compounds. |
Refrigerators, appendicitis, violation. |
Forget-me-not, information, disagreement. |
According to the structure the words: fridge,pub, tech, 'USA, exam are: |
Shortened. |
Simple. |
Compound. |
Derived. |
Blendings. |
Which of these prefixes have the opposite meaning?: |
Anti-, counter-, non-. |
Be-, со-, extra-. |
Ultra-, sub-, pre-. |
Re-, со-, pre-. |
De-, un-, over-. |
Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun?: |
A monkey - to monkey. |
A peel- to peel. |
A help - to help. |
A tramp - to tramp. |
A jump - to jump. |
What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words: monolingual, monosyllable, monologue |
One. |
Many. |
All. |
Every. |
Each. |
Check for the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar |
Shortening. |
Lexicalization. |
Blending. |
Back formation. |
Sound imitation. |
Which of the following words are Mendings?: |
Ping-pong, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie. |
Beggar, to burgle, to edit. |
Hanky, nighty, radar. |
M. P., USA, BBC. |
Smoke, brunch, clap. |
Which of these nouns are derived from verbs?: |
A break, a catch, a jump. |
A pain, a tramp, a button |
A pen, a weekend, a drink. |
A cook, a button, a monkey. |
A fall, a windlass, an act. |
Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes?: |
Booklet, hanky. |
Heroine, actress. |
Poetic, picturesque. |
Cloudy, girlish. |
Funny, sunny. |
Which of the following compounds are non-transparent?: |
Wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull's-eye. |
Bookcase, weekend, bottle-opener. |
Stone-cold, care-free, knowledge-greedy. |
Center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist. |
Steamship, round-faced, sword-fish. |
Which of the following compounds are non-transparent?: |
Wall-eye, fiddlesticks, bull's-eye. |
Bookcase, weekend, bottle-opener. |
Stone-cold, care-free, knowledge-greedy. |
Center-forward, woman-doctor, eye-specialist. |
Steamship, round-faced, sword-fish. |
The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have: |
A bound stem. |
A free stem. |
A semi-bound stem. |
A semi-free stem. |
A compound stem. |
Check for the line with asyntactic compounds: |
Oil-rich, red-hot, home-grown. |
Bluebell, slow-coach, mad-doctor. |
Know-nothing, kill-joy, tell-tale. |
Door-handle, day-time, time-table. |
A green-house, a dancing-girl, missing-lists. |
-er, -dom, -ness, -ation are: |
Noun-forming suffixes. |
Adjective -forming suffixes. |
Adverb-forming suffixes. |
Verb-forming suffixes. |
Numeral-forming suffixes. |
What is motivation?: |
The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning. |
The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its sound-form. |
The connection between the structural pattern of the word and the referent. |
The connection between the structural pattern of the word and its graphical form. |
The connection between the meaning of the word and referent. |
What is the lexical meaning?: |
The meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions. |
The meaning proper to sets of word-forms common to all words of a certain class. |
The component of meaning which makes communication possible. |
The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes. |
The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words. |
What is the denotational meaning?: |
The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible. |
The component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words. |
The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes. |
The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words. |
The connotational meaning. |
What is the connotational meaning?: |
The component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words. |
The component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes. |
The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words. |
The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words. |
The denotational meaning. |
What is context?: |
The minimal stretch of speech determining each individual meaning of the word. |
The structural patterns of phrases. |
The derivational patterns of words. |
A set of words united by the identity of the root. |
A group of non-motivated words. |
What is polysemy?: |
The existence within one word of several connected meanings. |
The ability of words to coincide in their sound forms. |
The existence of contrastive meanings within a word. |
The existence of only one meaning within words. |
Words with opposite meanings. |
What are homonyms?: |
Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning. |
Words with identical sound and graphic forms.. |
Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form. |
Words coinciding in some shades of meaning. |
Words with opposite meanings. |
What are synonyms?: |
Words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings. |
Words with identical sound and graphic forms. |
Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form. |
Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning. |
Words with contrastive meanings. |
What are antonyms?: |
Words different in sound and graphic form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning. |
Words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings. |
Words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning. |
Words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form. |
Words with identical sound and different in their graphic forms. |
Stylistic synonyms are; |
Two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation. |
Words which differ in shades of meaning. |
Words which differ in connotations;. |
Words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in |
meaning. |
Words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form. |