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Practical Phonetics (I year)

Yes, I can think of six thin things

Six thin things can you?

And of six thick things, too.

9. I'm thankful for a thousand things…

For faithful earth, for birth and breath

For thought and health and strength and mirth

And, maybe, when it comes for death.

10. Moses supposes his toeses are roses,

But Moses supposes erroneously,

For nobody's toeses are posies of roses

As Moses supposes his toeses to be.

1. The classification of English Consonant Phonemes.

2. The classification of English Vowel Phonemes.

3. Syllable Formation and Syllable Division in English.

4. Types of reduction.

5. Assimilation. Types of assimilation. Degrees of assimilation. Accommodation.

6. The stress in the phrases there is / there are.

7. The stress of indefinite pronouns some, any.

8. The meaning and use of high / low falling tone.

9. The meaning and use of high / low rising tone.

10. The main types of heads.

11. Intonation structure. Rhythmic group. Intonation group.

12. The stress of demonstrative pronouns.

13. The intonation of imperative sentences.

14. The intonation of direct adress.

15. The intonation of special questions.

16. The intonation of general questions.

17. The intonation of echo-questions.

18. The intonation of disjunctive questions.

19. The intonation of compound sentences.

20. The accentual structure of special questions.

21. The intonation of alternative questions.

22. Falling-Rising tone.

23. Rising-Falling tone.

24. Elision.

25. The intonation of statements (straightforward, implicatory, friendly).

26. Rhythm. Two-stress rhythm. Three-stress rhythm.

27. The intonation of parentheses.

28. Absence of assimilation in some consonant clusters.

29. The intonation of non-final parts of utterances.

30. The intonation of reporting phrases and reported speech.

31. The intonation of longer sentences.

32. English emphatic intonation.