The ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan

 
There are three answers after each question. Only one is correct. Choose the correct answer. 
 
1.
How many types of assimilation do you know? 
a) 2
b) 5
c) 3 
2.
How many degrees of assimilation are there in English? 
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4 
3.
Define the type of assimilation in the following phrase “What’s this?” 
a) progressive b) regressive
c) reciprocal 
4.
Define the type of assimilation in the word “newspaper” 
a) progressive b) regressive
c) reciprocal 
5.
Define the type of assimilation in the word “twenty” 
a) progressive b) regressive
c) reciprocal 
6.
Define the type of assimilation: 
1)
 
Envelopes, stops, asked, worked, space, beds
A. progressive B. regressive 
C. reciprocal 
2)
 
Sweet, sweater, meet Ted, let me, in the desk
A. reciprocal 
B. progressive 
C. regressive 
3)
 
what’s, twice, twins 
A. regressive B. progressive 
C. reciprocal 
Unit 5. Accommodation. Elision. Palatalization. Flapping.
Deletion. Dissimilation. 
 
 
 
 

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Accommodation 
 
 
In
accommodation
the accommodated sound does not change its main phonemic 
features and is pronounced as a variant of the same phoneme slightly modified under the 
influence of a neighbouring sound.
In modern English there are three main types of accommodation. 
(1)
An
 unrounded
variant of a consonant phoneme is replaced by its