Turan international university

TURAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
FINAL TEST
1.What does phonetics study?
It studies…
A) articulatory acoustic features of a language.
B) meaningful units of a language.
C) human ability to speak.
D) grammatical structure of a language.

2.What is phonetics connected with?
It is connected with…
A) physics, biology, and other branches of linguistics.
B) economics and business.
C) sports.
D) philosophy.

3.How is phonetics connected with physics?
A) Speech sound are spread into air in the form of sound waves.
B) Speech sounds consist of smallest atoms.
C) They make up electricity.
D) Speech sound are not connected with physics.


4.How is phonetics connected with biology?
A) Phonetics is connected with biology, because speech sounds
are formed with the help of organs of speech
B) Phonetics consists of organs of speech.
C) Phonetics is not connected with biology.
D) Phonetics forms the human body.


5.What branches of phonetics do you know?
A) Special, descriptive and historical phonetics, general phonetics and comparative phonetics.
B) Active and passive phonetics.
C) Linguistic and non – linguistic phonetics.
D) Prosodic and non – prosodic phonetics.


6.What are the methods of phonetic investigation?
A) Direct observation method, linguistic method and experimental method.
B) Medical and biological methods.
C) Psychological and pedagogical
D) Physical and biological methods.


7.What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?
A) Phonetics studies the articulation and classification of speech sounds, while phonology studies the distinctive function of speech sounds.
B) Phonetics study medicine and phonology studies the human body.
C) Phonetics studies only vowels and phonology studies only consonants of a language.
D) Phonetics and phonology mean one and the same thing.