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Theme: Intonation.
1. What is intonation? Give its definition by British and American linguists. What components of intonation do you know?
2. What aspects of intonation do you know? Give examples
3. What is phonostylistics (intonational stylistics)? What is the text forming function of intonation? What functions of intonation do we distinguish?
4. Why is the recognitive function of intonation important? What methods of indicating and describing intonation exist in English?
5.What functions does speech melody perform? Give an example.
6. What pitch ranges are distinguished in English? Give an example.
7. What functions of sentence-stress exist?
What does the term accentual structure of a sentence mean?
8. What function does pausation perform? Give an example.
9.What logical intonation means exist in English?
Theme: Modifications of sounds in speech and their types (combinatory-positional changes)
1.What is assimilation? What is the difference between assimilation and adaptation (or accommodation)? Give examples.
2. What is adaptation and elision? Give examples.
QUESTIONS FROM “PRONUNCIATION THEORY OF ENGLISH” BY ALIMARDONOV R.A.
What does the term "language" denote?
Explain the theoretical and practical importance of phonetics.
What types of phonetics do you know?
What aspects of phonetics do we distinguish?
What is the difference between phonological aspect and phonetic aspect?
What does segmental phonology study?
What does suprasegmental phonology study?
Why do we use transcription? What types of transcription do you know?
With what other fields of science is phonetics connected?
What methods of investigation do you know?
Who is the founder of the phonological theory?
Explain LA. Baudoin de Courtenay's phonological theory. How did he define the phoneme?
Give L.V.Scherba's definition of the phoneme.
Give the definition of the phoneme by the Moscow Phonological School.
What marked differences exist between the theories of St. Petersburg and Moscow phonological schools?
What representatives of the Prague phonological school do you know?
What definition of a phoneme was given by N.S. Trubetzkoy?
Give D. Jone's explanation of a phoneme.
What phonological trends exist in the USA?
What functions of the phonological units do you know?
What is a national language?
What is a literary variant of a language?
What is an orthoepic norm?
Why has RP been chosen as a standard for teaching?
Explain the Northern English spread.
What pronunciation types exist in the USA?
What pronunciation type is accepted as literary in the USA?
What differences exist between the distribution of vowel (or consonant) phonemes in RP and GA?
What are the marked differences in word accentuation between RP and GA
Explain the main features of Canadian pronunciation.
What do you know about the Australian pronunciation?
What main pronunciation features of New Zealand English are known?
What are the main differences between vowels and consonants?
What are the principles of classification of vowels?
What are the two basic approaches to the Phonological status of vowels?
What classes of vowels are distinguished by the horizontal movement of the tongue?
What classes of vowels are distinguished by the vertical movement tongue?
What vowels are rounded and unrounded? What vowels are tense and lax?
What is the difference between checked and free vowels?
According to what principles we classify vowels into monophthongs diphthongs?
According to what principles we distinguish vowels as compact and diffuse?
How do you explain reduction?
What are the general principles of Consonant function?
How are English consonants classified according to the type of obstruction the manner of production of noise?
How are the English Consonants classified according to the active speech organ?
How do we classify consonants according to the place of obstruction?
How do we classify consonants according to the presence or absence of voice?
How do we classify consonants according to the force of articulation?
How are the consonants classified according to the position of the soft palate?
What consonants are called discontinuous and continuant?
What consonants are characterized as tense and lax?
What are the acute and grave consonants?
According to what principle we classify consonants as compact and diffuse?
What are 9 binary oppositions of English Consonants according to their acoustic distinctions?
What are three phases of speech sounds?
Explain the phenomenon of adaptation.
What types of accommodation do you know?
Explain the phenomenon of assimilation.
What types of assimilation do you know?
Explain two degrees of assimilation.
What is progressive and regressive assimilation?
What is elision?
Explain modifications of the syllabic structure of speech.
How do you understand by modifications of the accentual structure of words?
What is a syllable?
What theories of syllable formation and syllable division do you know?
What is relative sonority theory?
What is the essence of the expiratory theory?
Explain L. V. Sherba's 3 types of consonants theory.
What types of structure do you know?
What peculiarities of syllabic structure do you know?
What types of syllable do you know?
Explain peculiarities of syllable formation and syllable division.
What can you say about the distinctive function of syllable?
What is the definition of stress?
Explain Segmental and Suprasegmental units.
What approaches exist to explain the nature of stress?
What can you say about degrees of stress?
How many accentual structures of English word stress do you know?
What do you know about the place of word stress?
Explain functions of stress.
What accentual tendencies in English do you know?
What is the difference between BE and AE?
How many degrees of stress exist in AE?
How do you understand broad and narrow definitions of intonation?
Is there difference between intonation and prosody?
Is Rhythmic Group and Intonation group the same?
Can you explain the elements of an Intonation group?
What functions can Intonation perform?
What conclusions can we do on discussing Intonation?
What factors influence our choice of style?
What is the subject matter of phonostylistics?
What is the difference between discourse and text?
What is the subject matter of phonosemantics?
What does phonotactics study?
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