SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST

Module 5

1. The New English period comprises the interval:

a) c. 1476 – now b) 1476-1660 c) 1660-1800

2. Which of the event influencing the language development of the mentioned period took place at that time?

a) industrial Revolution: more intensive urbanization, technical vocabulary based on Latin and Greek roots

b) defeat of Spanish Armada 1588, control of seas

c) Black Death

3. The term “inkhorn” means:

a) a way of representing in writing regional or dialect variations by spelling words in nonstandard ways

b) a bit-by-bit, or morpheme-by-morpheme, translation of one word in one language into another word in another language, often used to avoid bringing new or loan words into the translating language

c) scientific words from Latin or Romance languages, coined and introduced into English in the 16th and 17th centuries

4. Was the spelling of that time fixed yet?

a) Yes b) No

5. Which of the linguistic features characterise(s) the period?

a) - silent –e to mark the length

b) final –e is still pronounced

c) initial stops in clusters gn- and kn- are still pronounced

d) appearance of velar nasal [ŋ]

e) appearance of alveo-palatal fricative [3]

6. The way of pronunciation the word seizure obtained since the Early New English period is named

a) back mutation b) palatalisation c) i-umlaut

7. Which of the following changes in pronunciation took place in the Early new English period:

a) w dropped after s or t: sweostor →sister

b) w got lost in initial position before r: wrong, wrinkle, wrist

c) l got lost in the vicinity of palatal c in adjectival pronouns: ælc, swilc → each, such

d) final b got lost after m but retained in spelling: lamb, comb, climb

e) initial stops in gn- and kn- are still pronounced

f) g/k got lost in initial position before n: gnome, knight

g) g lost in -ng in a final position, producing the phonemic velar nasal

h) use of ou instead of u : hus → house

i) addition of a new phonemic sound called schwa - ә

8. The Great Vowel Shift - a massive sound change affecting

a) diphthongs b) diphthongoids c) long vowels d) short vowels e) all vowels

9. The Great Vowel Shift occurred during

a) the 15^th to 18^th centuries b) the 11^h to 14^th centuries c) the 19^th century

10. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift

a) short vowels shifted downwards

b) diphthongs became monophthongs

c) long vowels shifted upwards

d) diphthongoids turned to monophthongs

11. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift [i:] turned into

a) i b) ai c) iə d) u

12. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift [e:] turned into

a) i b) ai c) iə d) i:

13. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift [a:] turned into

a) ei b) ai c) Λ d) æ

14. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift [o:] turned into

a) o b) u c) oi d) əu

15. As a result of the Great Vowel Shift [u:] turned into

a) o b) au c) u d) əu

16. The Great Vowel Shift didn’t take place in the words where the vowel was followed by

a) m b) s c) r

17. Which of these were inherent in the Early New English noun?

a) four cases – Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative

b) two cases – common and possessive

c) -n in the plural in a few dialects – shoon, housen, eyen

d) plural formed by means of suffixes –as, -a, -u

e) isolated plural forms – twelvemonth

f) the category of gender

18. Shall and will in the future tense were used

a) for the 1^st person sg and pl and for the 2^nd, 3^rd persons sg and pl respectively

b) irrespectively of the person and number

c) were presented by should and would - forms respectively

19. Was do used in its auxiliary function yet?

a) yes b) no

20. Monosyllabic adjectives formed the superlative degree of comparison by means of

a) suffix –est

b) suffixes –est, -ost

c) suffix –est and often - a quantifier most

d) suffixes –est, -ost and often - a quantifier most

21. The pronoun ye

a) is used with familiars or when speaking to someone of a lower rank

b) is used as marks of respect when addressing superiors

c) fell out of use by the time

22. Familiar for the 2^nd person singular thou disappeared

a) by that time

b) by the end of the 16th century

c) by the end of the 11th century

23. TheEarly New English syntax is characterized

a) by a fixed word order b) by a relatively free word order c) by a free word order

24. Are double negatives still acceptable?

a) yes b) no

25. The words progress, probability, bizarre were borrowed from

a) Greek b) French c) Spanish

26. Match the words with the languages they were borrowed from:

1) balcony a) French

2) progress b) Italian

3) anarchy c) Spanish

4) cockroach d) German

5) leprechaun e) Japanese

6) ketchup f) Chinese

7) soy g) Dutch

8) shampoo h) Greek

9) landscape i) Hindi

10) waltz j) Celtic

MODULE 6

MODERN English

Objectives:

1) to understand some main linguistic feature of the period

2) to understand sources of enrichment of the vocabulary of the period

3) to know the history of elaborating the Oxford English Dictionary

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