Genaral questions
What does phonetics mean?
From the Greek word "phone" - meaning sound, voice, "tika" - a science
Who developed the phonemic concept represented by his research advisor?
L.V. Shcherba
Who was one of the first lingusts to give a defination of phoneme void of psychologic elements?
N. F. Jakovlev
Which method involves breakning down sounds into smaller units ?
Distinctive feature analysis
Which type of phonetics studies the phonetic system of a certain language ?
Descriptive phonetics
How many types of allophones and which are they?
Positional and combinatory
Which term was suggested by Moscow phonologists?
hyperphoneme
Which method involves analysing the structure of syllables in a language to understand how sounds group together in words.
Syllable structure
Give three examples to the phonological opposition
Pool- tool
Let- set
Right- light
Shcherba indicated three aspects of speech sounds and which are they?
Biological, physical and linguistic
Which term was result of coincidence of two phonemes which are differentiated by one feature ?
Nuetraluzation
This approach developed bu Woam Chomsky and Marries Halle, focuses on the rules an dprinciples that generate the sound patterns of a language.
Generative phonology
Who introduced the phrase " antropophonics" to tje phonetics?
Boudouin de Courtenay
Who invented his own system of transcription and wrote aboyt different pronounciation styles?
L.V.Shcherba
Analysing the sound changes in the morphemic structure of a language, it is possible to establish two different positions. Which are they?
stressed and unstressed
Which theory proposes that languages follow a set of universal principles when producing sounds but each language has its own ranking of these constraints?
Optimality theory
Which type of phonetics studies the changes a sound undergoes in the development of languages ?
Historical or diachronical
Which term is the shortest general sound image of a given language which is capable of associating with images of meaning differentiating words.
Phoneme
Which phonologist gave this defination?
"Phonemes are minimal units of the sound structure of a language, serving to form an ddifferentiate meaningful units: morphems and words. "
A. A. Reformatsky
This approach focuses on the interaction of multiple tiers of levels of representation in phonology. It is often used to analyse tone, vowel, harmony and other features that involve complex relation between segments especially in languages with non- linear phonological features.
Autosegmental phonology