Тест: Middle and New English Phonetics
Список вопросов
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1. Complete the sentence: In Early ME the pronunciation of unstressed syllables became increasingly |
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| 1) nuetral | |
| 2) indistinct | |
| 3) distinct | |
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2. In unstressd position there remained just ........ vowels. They were ............ |
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| 1) 4 e, i, ə, u | |
| 2) 3 e, i, ə | |
| 3) 2 i, ə | |
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3. In Middle English vowel length began to depend on phonetic conditions. This quality |
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| 1) goes back to ProtoGermanic peiod, so it ie an inherited feature | |
| 2) retained from OE period | |
| 3) developed in ME period, so it was an innovation | |
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4. Before the clusters ld, mb, nd the vowel [i] |
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| 1) shortened | |
| 2) lengthened | |
| 3) retained the same quantity | |
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5. In Early ME in the words 'open', 'name' the stressed vowels became |
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| 1) long and more narrow | |
| 2) long and more open | |
| 3) diphthongs | |
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6. In ME the long [a:] was |
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| 1) widened to [ᴐ:] | |
| 2) dissapeared | |
| 3) narrowed to [ᴐ:] | |
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7. The short OE [æ] was replaced in ME by |
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| 1) by the back vowel [a] | |
| 2) dissapeared | |
| 3) by the front vowel [a] | |
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8. In ME all previous diphthongs |
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| 1) developed into monophthongs | |
| 2) remained the same | |
| 3) formed different diphthongs | |
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9. New diphthongs with i-glides and u-glides appeared due to |
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| 1) vocalisation of [r], [Ɣ] | |
| 2) vocalisation of [r], [j] | |
| 3) vocalisation of [Ɣ], [j] | |
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10. Another set of diphthongs with u-glides appeared from |
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| 1) OE [w] | |
| 2) OE [Ʒ] | |
| 3) OE [ǣ] | |
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11. The Great Vowel shift involved |
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| 1) both all and short vowels | |
| 2) all short vowels | |
| 3) all long vowels | |
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12. The Great Vowel shift was |
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| 1) both dependant and independant | |
| 2) non-assimilative (independent on surrounding phonems) | |
| 3) an assimilative process (dependant on surrounding phonems) | |
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13. In the process of the Great Vowels Shift the vowels |
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| 1) became narrower, some broke into diphthongs | |
| 2) changed their place: back vowels shifted to front ones, front vowels broke into diphthongs | |
| 3) changed their place: back vowels became front ones | |
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14. Decide wich statement is true |
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| 1) During the shift the names of some English letters were changed, for they contained long vowels | |
| 2) The Great Vowel Shift was followed by some regular spelling changes | |
| 3) The Great Vowel Shift added some new sounds to the vowel system | |
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15. New English lost such a vowel as |
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| 1) [e] | |
| 2) [a] | |
| 3) [æ] | |
| 4) [u] | |
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16. In NE the consonant [θ] became............ in unstressed position (of, the, with) |
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| 1) unvoiced | |
| 2) voiced | |
| 3) remained unchanged | |
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17. The spelling innovation of NE period, witnessed in the words subtle, doubt, receipt, is called |
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| 1) latinization | |
| 2) romanization | |
| 3) stabalization | |
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18. Today's spelling is largelly |
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| 1) phonetic | |
| 2) descriptive | |
| 3) conventional | |