THEORETICAL PHONETICS
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 486.
Act out the following conversational sitations. Choose between the High, Stepping and Broken Heads in the replies according to the amount of new niformation conveyed and the kind of situation (more or less formal).
Model A: I am told the time of the meeting has been put off till next week.
– Yes, the 'meeting is post·poned till ·next `Friday.
Model B: What about the meeting? – They've 'put it 'off till ánext `Friday.
1. a). Where can we go to see a good play? – I hear there's a good play at the Drama Theatre tonight.
b). Where shall we go tonight? – There's a good play at the Drama Theatre.
2. a). What did the Secretary say? – She said she cold make an appointment for Wednesday.
b). When is the appointmentt with the manager on Wednesday? – I made the appointment for Wednesday morning.
3. a). How often do you do your grocery shopping? – I do my grocery shopping twice a month.
b). What do you do on Friday afternoon? – I usually do my grocery shopping.
4. a). Do you think these ideas will appeal to their imagination? – Well, I think these ideas can appeal to anyone.
b). What do you think of the new charity projects? – I think these ideas will mostly appeal to the women members of society.
5. a). When are you visiting your relations in Dover? – I am visiting my relations there in two weeks or so.
b). What are your plans for the weekend? – I'm visiting my relations in Dover.
Ïðèìåðíûå âîïðîñû ê ýêçàìåíó ïî êóðñó
"Òåîðåòè÷åñêàÿ ôîíåòèêà àíãëèéñêîãî ÿçûêà"
1. Phonetics as a science, its relation to other linguistic and non-linguistic sciences.
2. The subject matter of Phonetics and methods of its investigation.
3. Components of phonetic structure. Branches of Phonetics.
4. Phonetics and Phonology. Generative Phonology.
5. The phoneme, its features - distinctive and non-distinctive, the invariant of the phoneme.
6. The allophone. Types of allophones. Its relation to the phoneme.
7. Methods of phonological analysis.
8. Notation and types of pronunciation errors.
9. The main trends in the phoneme theory. Two schools of phonology in Russia.
10. The phonological systems of English vowels and consonants.
11. Classification of Consonants: the aspects of classification, different views on the issue.
12. The problem of affricates. The problem of sonorants. The problem of semi-vowels.
13. Classification of vowels. Relevant and irrelevant (to phonological analysis) aspects of classification.
14. The System of Cardinal Vowels. English consonants on the table of Cardinal Vowels.
15. The problem of diphthongs and its solution (plus English vs. Russian vowel combinations).
The system of diphthongs in the English language.
16. The syllable as a unit of four levels. Phonotactics.
17. The structure of the syllable. Foreign and Russian views on the structure of the syllable.
18. Syllable formation and syllable division. The maximum onsets principle.
19. Functions of the syllable. The linguistic value of the syllable.
20. The theories of the syllable.
21. The nature of stress.
22. Prominence. Russian and English word stress.
23. Placement of Word Stress.
24. Placement of word stress due to etymology. The three tendencies - recessive, rhythmical
and retentive.
25. Typology of accentual structure.
26. Torsuev's typology of accentual structure.
27. Complex word stress.
28. Word Stress vs. Sentence Stress.
29. The notion of rhythm. The definition.
30. The rhythmic unit. The segments of the rhythmic unit and different viewpoints on the issue.
31. The rhythm of the text. Types of text and the differences in rhythmic organisation.
32. Functions of rhythm.
33. The notion of intonation. The problem of definition.
34. Prosodic constituents of intonation. The pitch.
35. The communicative value of English tones.
36. Intonation pattern and its elements.
37. Pitch parameters. The range if pitch. The level of pitch.
38. Tempo.
1. Phonetics as a science. Branches of phonetics.
2. Methods of phonetic investigation. Other divisions of phonetics.
3. Articulatory classification of English vowels.
4. The phoneme. The allophones. Functions of the phoneme.
5. Modifications of consonants in connected speech.
6. Modifications of vowels in connected speech.
7. Sound alternations. The theory of neutralization of phonemes
8. The system of the English consonant phonemes and their phonemic oppositions.
9. The system of the English vowel phonemes and their phonemic oppositions.
10. Syllable. Theories on the nature of the syllable.
11. Features of the syllable. Types of syllables. Syllable formation.
12. Phonotactics and syllable division.
13. Functions of the syllable.
14. Types of word stress. The nature of word stress. The functions of word stress.
15. The accentual structure of English words. Word accentual tendencies.
16. The unstressed vocalism of English.
17. Intonation, its nature, components.
18. The structure of the intonation group. Types and meanings of nuclear tones.
19. Sentence stress (utterance stress).
20. Rhythm, tempo, pausation and tamber. Functions of intonation.
21. Phonostylistics. Style-differentiating features.
22. Intonational styles.
23. Phonosemantics. Types of Sound Symbolism.
24. Standard English Pronunciation (RP).
25. The Northern English Pronunciation.
26. Standard English of Scotland.
27. Cockney English.
28. The Irish English Pronunciation.
29. The American variant of the English language. The General American type.
30. Orthoepic norms. Changes in the Standard.
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