A. Give examples to prove that the following features of English consonants and vowels are distinctive.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 940.

Exercises.

Tricky questions.

· Discuss the difference between the two classes of sounds – in terms of articulation and auditory effect.

· What criteria do we use to descibe the quality of each particular consonant sound? Why are they conisdered objective for phonologicalanalysis?

· What are the principlesof classifying English consonants? How do the views of Russsian and foreign phoneticians differ here?

· What are the problematic issues and moot points of consonant classification? What sound solutions are suggested to solve these problems?

· Plan your own approach to the problem of classifying English consonants. Consider the most objective and phonologically relevant criteria.

· What factors influence the quality of a vowel?

· What principles of vowel classification would you state phonologically relevant / phonologically irrelevant? Give your grounds.

· Can vowel length differentiate the meaning of a word? Why / Why not?

· State the problem of vowel stability and say how different school solve it. State your preferences.

· What makes diphtongs and triphtongs a problematic isuue in phonetics? How is the problem resolved?

orality – nasality voicelessness - voicedness

tenseness – laxness plosiveness – fricativeness, etc.

frontness – backness