Questions

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 511.

1. Define prosody.

2. Define intonation pattern.

3. What is nucleus? What other synonymic terms do you know?

4. What tones are called kinetic or moving? How do they differ from static tones?

5. Characterize each of the nuclear tones in English. What are their meanings? What do they express?

6. Characterize the level nuclear tone.

7. What are the components of the intonation pattern in English?

8. What are the types of pre-nucleus?

9. What pitch ranges are distinguished?

10. What pitch levels are there in English?

11. Define the tempo of speech.

12. What kind of pauses are there in English?

13. What functions of intonation are distinguished by D. Crystal, P. Roach?

14. Define sentence stress/utterance-level stress?

15. What is its main function ? What does deictic mean?

16. Discuss cases when function words are used in their strong and weak forms.

17. What is the sentence focus and where is it located in unmarked utterances?

18. How can a speaker place special emphasis on a particular element in an utterance?

19. How would you define the role of sentence stress/utterance-level stress?

20. Define rhythm.

21. Define rhythmic group.

22. What is necessary for a learner to acquire a good English speech rhythm?

23. How is the incoming stream of speech decoded?

24. What is schemata?

25. What do listeners perform while decoding speech?

26. What is one of the most important units that contributes to successful speech processing in oral discourse?

27. What signals do listeners attend to trying to identify the end of one intonation

unit and the beginning of another?

28. What are important functions of prosody in oral discourse? Explain each of the

function and give examples.