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Test 5

1. Consider the following questions in written form.

1. What is speech tempo?

2. What degrees of speech rate do you know?

3. What is the speed of any unstressed syllables preced­ing the stressed ones?

4. What is the speed of any unstressed syllables following the stressed one?

5. What determines the average rate of utterance?

6. How does the speed of utterance depend on the correla­tion of stressed and unstressed syllables?

7. How does a change in the rate of speech influence the length of English vowels?

8. Can variations of tempo differentiate the more impor­tant and the less important parts of the utterance?

9. Does tempo vary according to the emotional state of the speaker?

10. What kind of rate may be associated with such negative emotions as: anger, scolding, accusation, etc.?

11. Is slow rate (lento) used to express blame, anger, etc?

12. What is the function of pausation?

13. Do pauses differ in length?

14. What are the main kinds of pauses in English and how are they marked?

Test 6

1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.

1. What are linguistic and extra-linguistic factors? What is ' the difference between them?

2. How did phonostylistics come into existence?

3. What does the term 'phonostylistics' suggest?

4. What is the status of phonostylistics?

5. Why is there no general theory of phonostylistics so far?

6. What is the essential characteristic of phonostylistics?

7. Give the definition of the phonetic norm.

8. What is the correlation between the norms and the actual speech behaviour used?

9. Give examples of phonetic synonyms.

10. What is the scope of euphonology? Why is it important?

11. Speak on sound symbolism. Give examples of your own.

12. Give examples of stylistic devices conveyed by phonetic expressive means.

13. Why does a person speak differently on different occasions?

14. What determines the choice of a speech style?

Test 7

1. Consider the following questions in written form.

1. What is speech rhythm?

2. What are the characteristic features of English rhythm?

3. How does the English rhythm differ from Russian?

4. What is a rhythmic group?

5. In what way will you divide the following sentences into rhythmic groups?

'I hope you won't be late for your train.' 'I read an account of it in The Morning Star.'

6. Is the influence of rhythm in speech very important?

7. How are initial unstressed syllables preceding the stressed one pronounced?

8. How are any unstressed syllables that follow the stressed one pronounced?

Теst 8

1. Consider the following questions and items in written form.

1. Mark sentence-stresses and underline all the content words in the sentence: "I sent them a photo of the chil­dren.' What parts of speech are content words?

2. Mark sentence-stresses and underline all the form-words in the sentence: 'They all went for a walk in the park.' What parts of speech are form-words?

3. Are the personal and possessive pronouns generally stressed in connected speech?

4. Transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and tunes.

"He told his son to wait for him.'

5. Are the auxiliary and modal verbs generally stressed in connected speech?

6. In what positions are auxiliary and modal verbs generally stressed in a sentence?

7. Transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and tunes: 'What do you generally do in the eve­ning?' Mind that the verb to do is used here first as an auxiliary, then as a content verb.

8. Transcribe the correct form of the verb can in the phrase 'I can do it as well?' And now in: 'Can you write it yourself?' Give other examples where auxiliary and modal verbs have their strong forms.

9. In what positions are prepositions generally stressed in a sentence?

10. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes in the sentence: 'Who are you waiting for?' Which form of the preposition for have you used? Give other examples where prepositions have their strong forms.

11. Which form-words have no weak forms?

12. Give examples of the word that as a demonstrative pro­noun and as a conjunction.

13. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes in the sen­tence: 'He isn't away, is lie?' Give examples where link-verbs have their strong forms.

14. Transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes in the sen­tences: 'We have an elder brother.' 'He has left for the Urals at present.' How have you transcribed the verb have in the first sentence, and has in the second?