2015-10-13
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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. Sound classes. The system of English consonants, their classification. p.22-23 (1), pp.23-32 (2), lectures
2. The phoneme and its functions. p.28-30 (1), pp.32-35 (2), lectures
3. The allophone. p.28-29 (1), lectures
4. The phonological analysis. Methods of the phonological analysis. p.34-35 (1), lectures
5. Problem 1 of the phonological analysis: the establishment of the inventory of English consonantal phonemes. Lectures
6. Problem 2 of the phonological analysis: the establishment of the phonologically relevant features. p.37-40 (1), lectures
7. Problem 3 of the phonological analysis: the interrelations among the phonemes of a language. Neutralization. p.40-42 (1), lectures
8. The phonemic status of diphthongs, triphthongs, and affricates. p.35-36 (1)
Questions to be answered by all the students:
1. What are the main questions to be answered about English consonants?
2. What is a phoneme?
3. What are the functions of the phoneme?
4. What is an allophone?
5. What do such notions as free variation and complementary distribution mean?
6. Enumerate the variations an allophone displays in connected speech.
7. What are idiolectal variations? Give examples.
8. What are diaphonic variations? Give examples.
9. What are allophonic variations? Give examples.
10. What are the main problems of the phonological analysis?
11. What is the inventory of phonemes of a language?
12. What is the semantic method in establishing phonemes in a language based on?
13. What is a minimal pair? Give examples.
14. What is a minimal set?
15. What is phonological and zero opposition? Give examples.
16. What is the formal method in establishing phonemes in a language based on?
17. What are phonologically relevant features?
18. What are phonologically irrelevant features?
19. What is neutralization of phonological opposition? Give at least one example.
20. Enumerate the rules which help to prove that diphthongs and affricates are monophonemic.
21. Prove that English diphthongs are monophonemic.
22. Prove that English affricates are monophonemic.
23. Prove that English triphthongs are biphonemic.
