Pronunciation varieties of English

29. A language used as a means of communication by speakers who do not have a native language in common is called

30. How many concentric circles can the spread of English throughout the world be visualized?

31. The situation when speakers can use both literary pronunciation and their native local accent in different situations is called

32. The first language of the children of Pidgin speakers is called....

33. How many major literary/cultivated accents are there on the British Isles?

34. How many million people speak English as their first language/mother tongue?

35. What is the standard of pronunciation for educated speakers in Great Britain?

36. Teaching English where learners addressed are often immigrants to an English-speaking culture is called

37. A set of pronunciation forms and rules of their usage is called...

38. Is there a World Standard English, a totally uniform, regional, neutral, and prestigious variety at the international level?

39. The entity of related national variants, dialects and their associated accents is called…

40. What are the two most prestigious accents of English in the world which generally serve as teaching models for TEFL?

41. How many literary pronunciation accents are there in the USA?

42. A unified entity of pronunciation patterns used for commu­nicative interaction by members of a speech community sharing a relevant social or geographical attribute and maintaining a set of phonological characteristics, despite limited phonetic and lexical-incidental variation between the speakers is called...

43. Teaching English to learners of all types is...

44. What is the geographical localization of the national pronun­ciation standard in the UK?

45. Reflection/fixing of actual pronunciation forms and patterns in pronunciation dictionaries and other references.

46. Individual speech of members of the same language community is called...

47. What is a striking feature of RP/BBC English and GenAm?

48. Are the majority of Standard English speakers in Britain rhotic or non-rhotic?

49. What accent is currently making a great influence on RP?

50. Name the 2 RP vowels which have the highest text frequency of occurrence

51. What phenomenon can be heard in RP in it's quite good..., football,etc?

52. What is RP often identified with in the public mind?

53. What sound combinations undergo affricatization?

54. Which RP diphthong is becoming a positional allophone of the phoneme /ɔ:/?

55. What scholar fist described RP as a hoped for standard?

56. Give the transcription symbol for a glottalized /t/.

57. What kind of assimilation do affricatization and assibilation belong to?

58. Which allophone of /l/is used in American English?

59. Which American accent prevails in New York?

60. How many consonants are there in GenAm?

61. Is Eastern American rhotic?

62. What century English is the starting point for American English?

63. Which diphthongs are not distinguished in GenAm?

64. What is one of the most characteristic allophones in GenAm?

65. Which geographical attribute does GenAm have?

66. How many vowels are there in GenAm?

67. What is the name of American national pronunciation standard?

68. A stress on the vowel in the penultimate syllable which is not typically stressed in RP is called...

69. It is considered to be the main variant of literary pronunciation in Great Britain. Its advantages are that it is easily understood in every part where English is spoken and it is understood more than any other variant. It is mostly heard in everyday speech of educated people, at English theatres and on the radio.

70. Which of the types serves as the base for General American pronunciation

71. Which of the accents of English is American based pronunciation standard?

72. Which of the accents of English is English based pronunciation standard?

73. Which of the accents of English is New English based pronunciation standard?

74. How many literary pronunciation accents are there in the USA?

75. What are New Englishes varieties of pronunciation?

76. Read the following abbreviations: ELT, TESL, TEFL.

77. The first language of the children of Pidgin speakers.

78. The language used for the purpose of communication between speakers of mutually unintelligible languages (usually in the third world) which has been developed out of the mixture of the languages of the communities concerned.

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