In xviiith century, there were mostly done researches of comparative-historical

d) Formal, semantic, areal, genetic
13. Port-Royal grammar is considered to be …
a) A *universal grammar
b) Practical grammar
c) Theoretical grammar
d) English grammar
14. When was Port-Royal grammar written
a) *1660
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b) 2009
c) 1700
d) 1669
15. What did Mahmud Kashgariy do by analyzing a group of Turkic languages
a) *He defined the level of their genetic relationship to each other
b) He found out Language Universals
c) He analyzed the lexical units of all Turkic languages
d) He compared all language of the world
1. The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a ...
a) *phoneme
b) Morpheme
c) allophone
d) phone
2. A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
a) *pressure phase and friction phase
b) Nothing
c) place of articulation
e) the manner of articulation
… which is mainly concerned with the functioning of phonetic units in the
language.
e) segmental phonetics;
f) practical phonetics;
g)suprasegmental phonetics;
h) *theoretical phonetics.
6. The branch of phonetics that studies the linguistic function of consonant and
vowel sounds, syllable structure, word accent and prosodic features, such as
pitch, stress, and tempo is called …
e) *phonology;
f) instrumental phonetics;
g) practical phonetics;
h) theoretical phonetics;
7. … studies the larger units of connected speech syllables, words, phrases, texts.
e) segmental phonetics;
f) theoretical phonetics;
g) practical phonetics;
h) *suprasegmental phonetics.
8. How many vowels are there in the English, Russian and Uzbek languages?
e) *20, 6, 6
f) 18, 6, 10
g) 19, 6, 6
h) 24, 10, 6
9. What language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length
e) Russian
f) *English
g) Uzbek
h) Polish
10. According to the palatalization of the tongue, what language has soft and hard
consonants.
e) English
f) Uzbek
g) *Russian
h) Polish
11. According to the passive organs of speech, consonants are divided into:
e) Labial
f) *Dental and alveolar
g) Sonorant
h) Fricative
12. A special prominence given to one more syllable in a word is:
e) The pause
f) The rhythm
g) The melody
h) *The stress
13. Which language has free word stress?
e) *Russian and English
f) Czeck and Slovak
g) French
h) Kazakh
14. What is a syllable?
e) Morphemic structure of the word
f) One of the speech sounds
g) The shortest segment of speech sounds
h) *Segmental structure of the word
15. Find the correct answer where English and Uzbek stress position is correctly
shown.
e) *words in English have mostly 1st syllable stressed position and Uzbek last
syllable stressed position
f) words in Uzbek have mostly 2nd syllable stressed position and English 1st
syllable stressed position
g) there is no stable stress position in both languages
h) words in Uzbek and English have free syllable stressed position
1. Which of these is the best definition of syntax?