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1) LEKSIKOLOGIYA
2) NAZARIY FONETIKA
3) NAZARIY GRAMMATIKA
4) TIL TARIXI
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1. How many types of assimilation are there according to direction of assimilation?
   1.   Three
   2.   Four
   3.   Six
   4.   Five
2. What does zero article express?
   1.   to denote the attitude of the speaker towards the utterance
   2.   to denote kinds or varieties of some abstract concept, state, quality
   3.   to denote the definite semantical meaning
   4.   proper nouns
3. How many levels are there in phonetics and phonology?
   1.   6
   2.   4
   3.   2
   4.   3
4. What do the roots express?
   1.   the concrete, "material" part of the meaning of the word
   2.   the specifications being of lexico-semantic character
   3.   the specifications being of grammatico-semantic character.
   4.   the specificational part of the meaning of the word
5. Which voice do these sentences express :
   The door opened; The book sells easily; The dress washes well
   1.   reflexive
   2.   active
   3.   reciprocal
   4.   middle
6. How many types of obstruction do you know?
   1.   1 bilabial
   2.   2 voiced & voiceless
   3.   2 complete & incomplete
   4.   I complete
7. What period of the English language history is the following definition about?
   It lasts from the 5th century to the end of the 11th; the dates of its end as suggested by various authorities range from 1066, which is the year of Norman Conquest, to 1150.
   1.   the Old English period
   2.   the Modern English period
   3.   the Middle English period
   4.   the Early Middle English period
8. What does Ilyish state according the category of gender?
   1.   not a single word in Modern English shows any peculiarities in its morphology due to its denoting male or female being
   2.   the existence of the category of gender in Modern English can be proved by the correlation of nouns with personal pronouns of the third person (he, she, it).
   3.   nouns have no category of gender in Modern English
   4.   the category of gender should not be confused with the category of sex, because sex is an objective biological category
9. The aim of practical grammar is ......
   1.   to embrace the whole study of language
   2.   to offer explanation for the rules
   3.   the description of grammar rules that are necessary to understand and formulate sentences
   4.   dealing with the language as a functional system
10. What is complex sentence?
    1.   based on coordination: the clauses are equal in rank, “equipotent”
    2.   a complicated act of thought and reflects two or more situational events as making a unity.
    3.   connected on the basis of subordination, with one of the clauses dominating the other(s)
    4.   a syntactic non-communicative unit of an intermediary status between the sentence and the word-group
11. The main parts of Trubetskoy's theory are:
    1.   the theory of the arch-phoneme
    2.   the theory of the phonological oppositions
    3.   the separation of the phonology from phonetics, the theory of tin oppositions, the theory of the arch-phoneme
    4.   the separation of the phonology from phonetics.
12. What is syntactic function?
    1.   separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
    2.   function of a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
    3.   combination of at least two constituents
    4.   distributional formula of the unit (pattern)
13. What features do not exist in classifying semi notional parts of speech?
    1.   combinability and stem building elements
    2.   Grammatical category and stem building elements
    3.   lexico grammatical meaning
    4.   combinability and function
14. What does acoustic phonetics study?
    1.   The syllabic structure of the word
    2.   It studies the way in which the air vibrates between the speakers mouth and the listener’s ear
    3.   The way of correct pronunciation
    4.   The intonation patterns
15. What is the predicate categorical meaning of the following sentence: It smells of hay ?
    1.   verbal actional
    2.   verbal statal
    3.   nominal perceptual
    4.   nominal factual
16. According what classification do all verbs fall into: directed (to see, to take, etc.) and non-directed action (to arrive, to drizzle, etc.)
    1.   morphological
    2.   lexical-morphological
    3.   functional
    4.   syntactic
17. Mark the wrong statement for the OE nouns
    1.   Strong declension of nouns included a-stems, ō-stems, i-stems, u-stems, n-stems.
    2.   In most declensions two, or even three, case forms were homonymous, so that the formal distinction of cases was consistent than that of numbers.
    3.   Though originally a semantic division gender in OE was not always associated with the meaning of nouns
    4.   The morphological classification of OE nouns rested upon the most ancient grouping of nouns according to the stem-suffixes, which consisted of vowels, consonants, sound sequences
18. Find the best answer. .....comprises three important modes of phonetics analyses by ear, by sight and muscular sensation.
    1.   the linguistic
    2.   perceptual
    3.   experimental
    4.   direct observation
19. What means of form building is used in the following degrees of comparison of OE: Ʒōd – bettra – betest?
    1.   suffixation + vowel interchange
    2.   suppletion
    3.   analytical means
    4.   suffixation
20. According to the type of nomination nouns may be......
    1.   human and non-human
    2.   proper and common
    3.   animate and inanimate
    4.   countable and uncountable
21. Which nuclear tone is used in Alternative Questions?
    1.   Falling
    2.   Low-Fall
    3.   Low -Rise/Low-Fall
    4.   Rise-Fall
22. What types of English pronunciation is in USA?
    1.   What types of English pronunciation is in USA?
    2.   Eastern English, southern English, western English, historical
    3.   Eastern English, southern English, western English
    4.   Northern English, western English, eastern English
23. What is a biological science and is concerned with physical and physiological characteristics of speech sounds .
    1.   Phonetics
    2.   Sound
    3.   Physiology
    4.   Phonology
24. What stem of OE nouns did not strong declension possess?
    1.   u-stem
    2.   a-stem
    3.   i-stem
    4.   n-stem
25. The only dialect in which there is an extensive collection of texts is in the southwest. Nearly all of OE literature is preserved in manuscripts transcribed in this region. With the ascendancy of the West Saxon kingdom it attained something of the position of a literary standard, and both for this reason and because of the abundance of the materials it is made the basis of the study of OE. Which of OE dialect it is spoken?
    1.   Northumbrian
    2.   Kentish
    3.   Mercian
    4.   West Saxon
26. Which of the following parallels is an example for the Great Vowel Shift?
    1.   a: > o
    2.   æ: > a
    3.   y: > i:
    4.   e: > i:
27. Name the functions of phoneme that serves to perform in speech
    1.   Syntactical
    2.   Grammatical
    3.   Cognitive, distinctive, recognitive
    4.   Constitutive
28. Who is the founder of distributional approach?
    1.   Charles Fries
    2.   Blokh
    3.   Henry sweet
    4.   Naom Chomsky
29. In what case form of OE are the underlined words employed?
    sē wulf nimþ and tōdǽlþ þā scēap (the wolf takes and scatters the sheep)
    hine nānes þinges ne lyste (nothing pleased him)
    1.   Nominative
    2.   Dative
    3.   Genitive
    4.   Accusative
30. How is the structural grammar introduced by Yule?
    1.   as a prescription of how grammar should be used
    2.   the process of generating infinite number of sentences form a finite number of rules
    3.   as a description of how grammar is used
31. Mark the line in which the OE dialects are given in a proper way.
    1.   London, East Anglia, Mercian, Kentish
    2.   Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian
    3.   Kentish, Essex, Wessex, Sussex, Northern
    4.   Northern, Midland, Southern
32. The London Phonological school is headed by:
    1.   N.S.Trubetskoy
    2.   Prof. D. Jones
    3.   L.Hjelmslev
    4.   Ferdinand de Saussure
33. Which nuclear tone is used in Requests
    1.   Low-Rise
    2.   Fall-Rise
    3.   Falling
    4.   Rise-Fall
34. Practical phonetics studies the substance, material form of ... phenomena in relation to meaning.
    1.   phonetic
    2.   phonologic
    3.   linguistic
    4.   grammatical
35. Which of the syntactic functions is not fulfilled by the noun in English?
    1.   subject;
    2.   attribute;
    3.   predicate;
    4.   object.
36. What do particles express?
    1.   to denote the definite semantical meaning
    2.   to denote the attitude of the speaker towards the utterance
    3.   proper nouns
    4.   to denote kinds or varieties of some abstract concept, state, quality
37. …….is the lexical nucleus of a word, it has an individual lexical meaning shared by no other morpheme of the language
    1.   Semi-bound morpheme
    2.   Suffix
    3.   Bound morpheme
    4.   Root morpheme
38. What is traditional grammar referred to?
    1.   the theory which has been developed by Chomsky since the 1950s till now
    2.   “any approach to the analysis of language that pays explicit attention to the way in which linguistic features can be described in terms of structures and systems”
    3.   “the grammars written by classical Greek scholars, the Roman grammars largely derived from the Greek, the speculative work of the medievals, and the prescriptive approach of the eighteenth-century grammarians”
39. There are …. principles of describing intonation.
    1.   5
    2.   7
    3.   3
    4.   4
40. What is structural grammar referred to?
    1.   the theory which has been developed by Chomsky since the 1950s till now
    2.   “any approach to the analysis of language that pays explicit attention to the way in which linguistic features can be described in terms of structures and systems”
    3.   “the grammars written by classical Greek scholars, the Roman grammars largely derived from the Greek, the speculative work of the medievals, and the prescriptive approach of the eighteenth-century grammarians”