Questions

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 751.

1. What is pronunciation?

2. What problems can we focus on when discussing the English pronunciation?

3. Say why speech is not the same as language.

4. Define the meanings of pronunciation.

5. How is language shaped into a spoken message?

6. What can a spoken message be thought of, first of all?

7. What are speech sounds? What are phonemes?

8. What do the sounds of a language constitute?

9. Name three systemic characteristics of the segmental component.

10. How can the phonemic component be studied and described?

11. What is a syllable?

12. How can the syllable be defined articulatorily and auditorily?

13. What is the second component of the phonic structure of language and what aspects does it have?

14. What is stress?

15. What three features does stress have?

16. What does the vocalic element of an English stressed syllable tend to have?

17. What constitutes the third component of the phonic structure of language?

18. What aspects does word stress have?

19. How are words in speech organized?

20. What features are superimposed on the segmental chain of sounds?

21. What are the most important supra-segmental effects in a language provided by?

22. What is utterance/sentence stress?

23. Give all the meanings of the word accent.

24. What is rhythm?

25. Explain stress-timed and syllable-timed rhythm.

26. What will a detailed description of phonic/sound substance of language consist of?