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Where possible, divide the words below into syllabographs.
Onset peak coda
· squealed
· eighths
· splash
· texts
bananas, berries, beer, breakfast, cabbage, coffee, dinner, disappear, fee, fire, fishing, housework, ironing, marry, mistake, parents, passing, playing, plural, potatoes, plural, rural, shopping, speaking, standing, tomatoes, walking, writing
8. ² Define the number of syllables according to the sonority theory.
alone, appetite, arisocracy, inferiority, interior, insufficient, machine, misunderstood, remarkable, revolution, satisfactory, solipcism, window
9. a) Mark initially weak (__) and initially strong conosnants ( ). Supply each word with the corresponding arc of loudness:
kæt, 'a:mı, 'i:tə, 'laınə, 'æktə, 'botl, 'i:gl, 'mıstə, 'lekt⌠ə, 'mıdl, 'wıntə, mæp, fılm
b) Write out:
· initially weak (finally strong)
· finally weak (initially strong) consonants
hate, act, ice, plot, face, hid, face, stamp, spot, pile, land, mist, mole, mark, gold, cap, nose, fix, harm, merry, horn, start, form, sit, lame, back, miss, sack, grave, tip, tide, top, late, mad, made, nine, till, cake, thick, bat, pin, pine
7. ² Prove the semantic importance of the correct syllable boundary.
a nation – an Asian до дела ли – доделали
a nice house – an ice house хлеб с ухой – хлеб сухой
the tall boys – that all boys по машинам – помаши нам
see Mable – seem able гадюк били – гадюку убили
I saw them eat – I saw the meat подругу вели – подруг увели
I saw her rise – I saw her eyes он же ребенок – он жеребенок
a name for it – an aim for it пойти на встречу – пойти навстречу
that's tough – that stuff
my train – might rain
not at all – not a tall
keep sticking – keeps ticking
a man with a blacked eye – a man with a black tie
Reference material:
1. М.А. Соколова. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. Практикум. М. 2001, pp.79-88
2. М.А. Соколова. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. М, Владос, 1996, pp.112-121
3. S.F. Leontyeva/ A Theoretical Course of English Phonetics, М, Менеджер, pp.205-216
4. Peter Roach. English Phonetics and Phonology. CUP 2000, pp.70-80
Unit 6. The Stress.
1. The nature of stress. Prominence.
ü the notion of stress
ü the notion of stress pattern / the accentual structure of the word
ü stress in different languages
ü two ways of approaching stress identification
ü prominence and the factors making a syllable prominent
ü Russian and English word stress
2. Placement of Word Stress.
ü classification of languages due to placement of word stress
ü levels of stress and different views on the issue
ü placement of word stress due to etymology - the three tendencies - recessive,
rhythmical and retentive
3. Typology of accentual structure.
ü the principles of typology
ü two-syllabic and three-syllabic words; the drawbacks of the typology
ü Torsuev's typology
4. Complex word stress.
ü the principles of stress placement Give concrete examples
ü stress in complex words formed with the help of suffixes
ü stress in complex words formed with the help of prefixes
ü stress in compound words
ü stress in word class pairs
5. Word Stress vs. Sentence Stress.
ü the nature of word stress and sentence stress compared
ü functions of word stress and sentence stress
6. Conclusions