Midterm test

speech sounds, word stress, syllabic structure and intonation
13. Articulatory, acoustic, auditory, and functional (social) are aspects of
speech sounds
14. The branch of phonetics which is concerned with the study, description and classification of speech sounds as regards their production by the human organs of speech is called
articulatory phonetics

15. The branch of phonetics investigating the perception process is known as

auditory phonetics
16. Acoustic phonetics studies
the way in which the air vibrates between the speaker’s mouth and the listener’s ear (their physical properties)
17. Acoustic phonetics is sometimes called
experimental, instrumental or laboratory phonetics
18. The branch of phonetics investigating the perception process is known as
auditory phonetics
19. The branch of phonetics that studies the functional (linguistic, social) aspect of speech sounds and all the other components of the sound matter of the language (syllabic structure, word stress and intonation) is called
phonology
20. Special phonetics is subdivided into …
descriptive and historical
21. Special descriptive phonetics studies …
the phonetic structure of the language synchronically
22. The study of the historical development of the phonetic system of a language helps to understand
its present and predict its future
23. Historical phonetics is connected
with general history and the history of the people whose language is studied
24. Historical phonetics is closely connected with
comparative phonetics which studies the correlation between the phonetic systems of two or more languages
25. Which division of phonetics deals with the larger units of connected speech as: syllables, words, phrases and texts?