Phonotatics. Rules of syllable division, functions of the syllable.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 433.

Consonants are modified according to the place of articulation

Modification of consonants in connected speech.

Phonostylistics. Classification of phonemic styles.

The phonemic status of English dipthongs.

Problem

Russian: monophonemic:

— articulatory indivisibility

— morphological indivisibility

— syllable indivisibility

— duration

— commutation

— natives (vasyl'ev and zinder)

American descriptivists: clusters (why?)

+ Triphongs

The style is the principles of selections and arrangement and the ways of combining language means.

Vs traditional.

Informational, academic, publicistic, declamatory, conversational.

Assimilation — adaptive modification of a consonant by a neighbouring consonant in the speech chain. (at three)

Reduction — qualitative or quantitative weakening of vowels in unstressed positions.

Elision — complete loss of sounds. Different in different speech.

Linking and intrusive r — insertion. Linking: care of, intrusive asia and.

Phonotactics is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters, and vowel.

Rules of syllable division: problem exists only in case of intervocalic consonants and their clusters.

Functions:

— constitutive: a part of the word or a word itself. + prosodic characteristics of speech inside.

— Distinctive — differentiation of syllables or words