IV. THE SYLLABIC STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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1. Principal theories of syllable formation and syllable division.

2. Structural types of syllables in English.

3. Functions of syllables.

4. Syllable construction in English and in Russian.

5. Syllable division in writing.

Tasks and exercises:

1. Give syllabic structural patterns of the following English words:

pattern: fact – CVCC – type: covered closed syllable (CVC)

pot, lifts, smoke, boy, pray, eight, straw, screams, clenched, table, army, father.

2. Arrange the words given below into columns according to the type of syllabic structure:

ore, took, pray, lift, aunt, are, asks, price, elm, gold, ice, more, act, five, fur, spy, spleen, blue, eight, army, open, eats, stamps, serpents, plosion, twelfth, smoke.

3. Mark initially string consonants with a single line, and initially weak consonants with two lines:

cat, army, mister, liner, rugby.

4. Divide the words into phonetic syllables:

patient, equal, often, parents, emigrants, enable, errands, supper, mistake, April, urgent, trifle.

5. Divide the words into syllabographs, where possible:

openly, number, newspaper, driving, famous, refused, development, liberation, lived, working, worked, fire, beautiful.

6. Give possible division in syllables. Spell the following words or group of words: [əneɪ∫n], [ðətɔ:lbɔɪz], [ənaɪshaʊs], [əneɪmfərɪt], [aɪsɔ:ðəmi:t], [maɪtreɪn], [aɪsɔ:həֹraɪz]

Recommended literature:

1. Sokolova M.A. English Phonetics. A Theoretical Course. – M., 1991. – pp. 94-100.

2. Leontieva S.F. A Theoretical Course of English Phonetics. – M., 1970. – pp. 167-176.

3. Vassiliev V.A. English Phonetics. A Theoretical Course. – M., 1970. – pp. 229-285.

4. Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (by A.S. Hornby). Preface. Notes on the Use of the Dictionary.

5. Соколова М.А., Гинтовт К.Л. и др. Практическая фонетика английского языка. – М., 1984. – С. 125-136.