Практическое занятие №1

СПИСОК ВОПРОСОВ К ЭКЗАМЕНУ ПО КУРСУ «ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКАЯ ФОНЕТИКА АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА» ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ III КУРСА СПЕЦИАЛЬНОСТИ «АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК»

1. Language as a system. Phonetics: segmental and suprasegmental levels. Interrelationships with lexicology and grammar.

2. Articulatory, acoustic, and auditory areas of phonetics.

3. Phonology.

4. Divisions of phonetics (general, special, historical, comparative).

5. The speech mechanism. The production of speech sounds.

6. Sound classes. English vowels.

7. Sound classes. English consonants.

8. The phoneme.

9. The allophone.

10. The phonological analysis. Methods of the phonological analysis. Problem 1: the establishment of the inventory of English consonantal phonemes.

11. The phonemic status of diphthongs, triphthongs, and affricates.

12. Problem 2 of the phonological analysis: the establishment of the phonologically relevant features.

13. Problem 3: the interrelations among the phonemes of a language. Neutralization.

14. Aspects of connected speech. Modifications of phonemes. Assimilation.

15. Aspects of connected speech. Elision. Linking.

16. The syllable as a phonetic and phonological unit. Phonotactics.

17. The structure of a syllable. Syllable division in English.

18. Theories of syllable formation.

19. Word stress. Types of word stress. Linguistically relevant degrees of word stress.

20. The stress pattern of English words. Tendencies.

21. Word stress rules.

22. Intonation and prosody.

23. Prosodic units.

24. Prosodic subsystems. Pitch.

25. Prosodic subsystems. Rhythm.

26. Prosodic subsystems. Utterance stress.

27. Prosodic subsystems. Tempo.

28. Pauses.

29. Meanings of prosody.

30. Functions of prosody.

31. Supraphrasal unities.

32. The division of utterances into intonation groups.

33. Notation systems.

34. Types of transcription.

35. The orthoepic norm.

36. Dialects.

37. RP as the Standard English accent.

38. Differences between accents (phonetic and phonological).

39. Current changes in RP.

40. Pronunciation varieties of English.

41. Regional varieties of British English. The Northern accent.

42. Regional varieties of British English. The Scottish accent.

43. American English pronunciation.

44. Sociolinguistic issues of the British Isles. Social and regional variation. Social dialects.

45. Estuary English.

46. World dialects. Pidgins and creoles.

47. Phonetic styles and their classification.

48. Phonetic style-forming means.

49. Bilingualism and prosodic interference.

50. Features of Russian-English and Belarusian-English interference.

Утверждены на заседании кафедры теории и практики английского языка 22.04.2013 г., протокол № 10.

Зав. кафедрой

теории и практики

английского языка Богатикова Л.И.

СПИСОК ВОПРОСОВ К ПРАКТИЧЕСКИМ ЗАНЯТИЯМ ПО КУРСУ «ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКАЯ ФОНЕТИКА АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА» ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ III КУРСА СПЕЦИАЛЬНОСТИ «АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК»

Практическое занятие №1

Literature:

1. Borisova L.V., Metlyuk. Theoretical Phonetics. Minsk, 1980.

2. Roach P. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge, 1990.

3. Lectures

Topics for individual reports:

1. Language as a system. Phonetics: segmental and suprasegmental levels. Interrelationships with lexicology and grammar. pp.5-6, 12-13 (1), lectures

2. Articulatory, acoustic, and auditory areas of phonetics. pp.13 (1), lectures

3. Phonology. p.14 (1), pp.35-36 (2), lectures

4. Divisions of phonetics (general, special, historical, comparative). p.14-16 (1)

5. The speech mechanism. The production of speech sounds. pp.8-10 (2), lectures

6. Principles of classification of speech sounds. pp.17-18 (1), pp.10-12 (2), lectures

7. Sound classes. The system of English vowels. The cardinal vowel system. pp.12-14 (2)

8. The system of English vowels, their classification. p.19-21 (1), pp.10-22 (2), lectures

Questions to be answered by all the students:

1. What are the main branches of phonetics depending on which sound phenomenon is studied?

2. What are segmental and suprasegmental levels of phonetics?

3. What does the speech production mechanism consist of?

4. What are four important states of glottis?

5. What is articulation?

6. What is phonology? What does it study?

7. What is phonetics? What does it study?

8. What is the difference between phonetics and phonology?

9. What are the main questions to be answered about English vowels?

10. What is the cardinal vowel system?

11. What are the main principles of classification of vowels?

12. What groups can the English vowels be subdivided into according to their length and stability of articulation?

13. What groups of diphthongs do you know?