Tricky questions.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 451.

· How is the effect of syllable prominence achieved in English?

· How is the intensity of the stressed syllable achieved on the avoustic and articulatory levels?

· Is the greater breath effort on the stressed syllable connected with the quantity and quality of the stressed vowel? Illustrate by examples, if so.

· What difference can you trace between word stress in English and in Russian?

· Speak about the traditional classification of languages into those woth fixed and free stress.

· State the view of the British linguists on the degree of word stress in English.

· How many degrees of word stress are distiguished in American English?

· What tendencies effect the position of English word stress?

· Speak about the recessive tendency. Give a series of examples to illustrate its influence

on borrowings in English.

· What gave birth to rhythmical tendency?

· Prove that both tendencies interrelate in the accentual structure of English words.

· What peculiarity marks the accentual structure of words with retentive tendency?

· Trace the regulation of accentuation in Russian.

· What specific accentual structures do English words have according to Torsuev?

· Name the main groups of compounds according to their accentual structure.

· Comment on the functions of word stress in English and in Russian.

· How does the shifting of stress affect the quality and quantity of unstressed vowels?