The number of English vowel phonemes, which are traditionally distinguished by phoneticians in this country, is

a) 10;

b) 15;

c) 20.

8. The first one who introduced the term phonology as the science of purely linguistic (functional) aspect of speech sounds, opposed to anthropophonics (the proper phonetics in modern terms) was:

a) D. Jones;

b) J.N.I. Baudouin de Courtenay;

c) L.V. Shcherba.

The number of English consonant phonemes, which are traditionally distinguished by phoneticians in this country, is

a) 20;

b) 22;

c) 24.

The section of phonetics, which studies the correlation between the phonetic systems of two or more languages, especially kindred ones and finds out the correspondences between the speech sounds of kindred languages, is

a) general phonetics;

b) historical phonetics;

c) comparative phonetics;

d) theoretical phonetics.

The consonants articulated by the tip of the tongue raised against the teethridge and the middle part of the tongue which is simultaneously raised to the hard palate are called

a) alveolar;

b) palato-alveolar;

c) post-alveolar.

According to the scale of sonority, English sounds, considered to be the most sonorous, are

a) back vowels (low, mid, high);

b) semi-vowels and sonorants;

c) voiced and voiceless consonants.

The sounds formed during the separation of the articulating organs in the pronunciation of which the complete closure gradually and uninterruptedly opens into a flat-slit narrowing are called

a) affricates;

b) cacuminal;

c) fricatives.

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