2. Practical assignment

Group 1 – Phonetics as a science (Part I)

• What is phonetics?

• Connection of phonetics with grammar

• Connection of phonetics with lexicology

• Connection of phonetics with stylistics

Group 2 – Physiological and articulatory aspects of speech sounds (Part I)

• What is speech from the Physiological point of view?

• Speech organs (active/ passive)

• Speech mechanisms

• The ways consonants are produced

• The ways vowels are produced

• Suction sounds, clicks

Group 3 - Physiological and articulatory aspects of speech sounds (Part II)

• Classification of English consonant phonemes

• Transcription

Group 4 – Articulatory transition of vowel and consonant phonemes in English (Part I)

• What is assimilation?

• Types of assimilation (affecting direction, affecting active organ of speech and the place of abstraction, affecting the position of lips, affecting the manner of noise production, affecting voicing and devoicing)

• Aspiration

• Palatalization

• Labialization

• Elision

Group 5 – Articulatory transition of vowel and consonant phonemes in English (Part II)

• Stages of single sound articulation

• Ways of joining sounds: merging of stages, interpenetration of stages

• Fricative plosion

• Nasal plosion

• Lateral plosion

• Loss of plosion

Group 6 – Phonetics as a science (Part II)

• What is phonetics?

• General phonetics

• Special phonetics

• Descriptive phonetics

• Historical phonetics

• Theoretical phonetics

• Practical phonetics

• Physiological phonetics

• Acoustic phonetics

• Functional phonetics (phonology)

Group 7 – The unstressed vocalism of the English vowels

• What is unstressed vocalism?

• Reduction (quantitative, qualitative)

• Parts of speech unstressed in English

• The role of neutral sound schwa

• Difference between English and Kazakh and Russian unstressed vocalism

Group 8 - Physiological and articulatory aspects of speech sounds (Part III)

• Classification of English vowel phonemes

• Diphthongs

• Monophthongs

• Diphthongoids

Task to practical assignment (6 items)

1. Practical part mast be presented by means of Prezi

2. The first slide of Prezi must contain the list of your group and a photo of the members of the group

3. The second slide of Prezi must contain cloud of words “Wordle” in accordance with the topic discussed

4. The third slide of Prezi must contain “Treasure hunt” in accordance with the topic discussed (see Appendix 1)

5. The forth slide of the Prezi must contain Mind Mad on the given topic (read additional material about Mind Mapping and choose the site you like best to create your own Mind Map)

6. Go to class wiki Theoretical Phonetics 2014-2015 at sites.google.com to paste your group Prezi in Practical Class Wallwishers (Practical Class Padlet 1) due to 09.04.2015 11.00 pm (23.00 Astana time)