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1. Match the following notions with their definitions:
| 1. Connecting of the final sound of one word or syllable to the initial sound of the next one. 2. The ability of the syllable to form higher-level units – words, accentual or rhythmic groups, utterances. 3. The interval between the highest-pitched syllable and the lowest-pitched syllable of an utterance. 4. The function of stress ensuring to differentiate the meaning of words and their forms. | a. Constitutive function b. Distinctive function c. Range d. Liasion |
2. Define whether the statements are true or false:
1. The root vowel in the given word is long “portrait”
2. The root vowel sound in the given word is a diphthong “genre”
3. The root vowel in the given word is short “genre”
4. The root vowel sound is labilized “portrait”
5. The root vowel sound in the given word is a diphthong “painting”
6. The consonant sound in italics is plosive “portrait”
7. The consonant sound in italics is sonorant “right”
8. The plosive in italics is voiced “genre”
9. The consonant sound in italics is fricative “tinge”
10. The word is two-syllabic “understand”
11. The word is monosyllabic “painting”
12. The word contains one stress “painting”
13. The special questions in English are marked with falling terminal tone.
14. The type of assimilation in the given word combination is loss of plosion “great trouble”