Тема: The System of English Vowels

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 455.

Семинарское занятие № 10

Тема: Modifications of Consonants

Семинарское занятие № 9

Discussion Points:

1. What does assimilation mean?

2. What modification process is opposite to assimilation?

3. What types of assimilations are distinguished?

4. What are the types of assimilation according to the place of articulation?

5. What are the types of assimilation according to the manner of articulation?

6. What are the types of assimilation according to the voicing value?

7. What are the types of assimilation according to the lip position?

8. What are the types of assimilation according to the position of the soft palate?

9. What are the cases of elision?

10. What are the types of epenthesis?

11. What are the examples of metathesis in children and adults speech?

Discussion Points:

Analyze the articulatory constituents of quality of English vowels:

a. Classify English vowels according to the stability of articulation. What is the phonemic status of English diphthongs?

b. Characterize English vowels according to the horizontal and vertical movements of the tongue. Comment on different views on the number of classes of vowels in each aspect.

c. Characterize the nature of the principal of lip rounding in the classification of vowels.

d. Speak on the quality of checkness. Why is it important for Russian learners of English?

e. Point out and discuss the main problems that concern the length or quantity of English vowels.

f. Speak on the articulatory characteristic of tenseness. Define its significance for the classification of vowels.