- •Материалы для семинарских занятий
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises:
- •3. Read the following extract and define the differences between phonetics and phonology.
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises:
- •1. Say whether these statements are True or False:
- •2. Fill in the blanks with suitable terms or definitions:
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises:
- •1. Say whether these statements are True or False:
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises:
- •2. Establish the syllabic boundaries in the following group of words:
- •4. Comment on the difference in syllable division of the given English and Russian words. What articulatory vowel feature determines the syllable division in English?
- •5. Study the following oppositions. Detect the realization of the phonological function of syllable division.
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises:
- •1. Read the following extracts. Comment on each phonetic conception of word-accent concerned with its acoustic nature, degree, position and linguistic function in English and in Russian.
- •2. Choose between the variants: a or b
- •3.Fill in the gaps in the table: types of word-stress
- •4. Fill in the gaps in the table: accentuation tendencies in English
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises
- •1. Read the following extracts. Comment on each conception of intonation.
- •2. Restore the hierarchy of prosodic units
- •3. Fill in the gaps in the table: functional aspect of prosody
- •Obligatory Tasks and Exercises
- •1. Compare the following approaches to the problems of:
2. Restore the hierarchy of prosodic units
3. Fill in the gaps in the table: functional aspect of prosody
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It unifies words into utterances, the main communicative units. A succession of words arranged syntactically is not a communicative unit until a certain prosodic pattern is attached to it.
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The distinctive function of prosody | |
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Prosody differentiates the communicative types of utterances, statements, questions, exclamations, imperatives.
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modal (attitudinal)-distinctive |
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Prosody differentiates the location of the semantic nuclei of utterances and other semantically important words. |
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syntactical-distinctive |
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Prosody provides a basis for the hearer's identification of the communicative and modal type of an utterance, its semantic and syntactical structure with the situation of the discourse.
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Seminar 7 Varieties of English Pronunciation
Task 1. Imagine that you are the participants of a philological conference. Team up into 5 groups (3-5 people). Choose from the list below one problem for discussion (one group is responsible for one problem only, problems mustn’t be repeated in groups). Make use of the material of the lecture and additional material (obligatorily!!!!!!!!!):
1. Speak about the varieties that exist in any language (dialects, idiolectal differences,standard pronunciation).
2. Describe features of RP as the orthoepic norm of British English.
3. Local and regional varieties of English.
4. Phonostylistics as a new branch of phonetics, the object of its investigation.
5. Phonetic styles, their classifications and the principles they are based on.
Prepare the presentation of a problem, distribute the roles in a group in the following way:
a) SPEAKER (making use of the lecture material, additional material, Internet resourses presents a 4-5 minute report on a chosen problem);
b) ASSISTANT-SPEAKER (making use of the lecture material, additional material, Internet resourses adds a SPEAKER’s report on a chosen problem, 2 minutes);
c) GROUP MEMBER (every member of the group, except a speaker and an assistant-speaker, prepares one question beforehand and addresses the question either to a speaker or to an assistant-speaker);
d) COUNTERSPEAKER (beforehand prepares 3-5 questions on the information presented by the speaker and an assistant-speaker and addresses them to the members of the other groups, assesses the answers, puts down the marks, passes the list with the surnames and marks to a teacher).
Thus, in the end of the seminar every student gets a mark for activeness-passiveness at the seminar.
Literature
1.Боисова, Л.В., Метлюк, А.А. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка: учеб.пособие для ин-тов и фак. иностр.яз./ Л.В. Борисова, А.А. Метлюк. – Минск: «Вышэйшая школа», 1980. – C. 109 - 130
Соколова, М.А. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. Практикум: учеб.пособие / М.А. Соколова, И.А.Афонская, Л.Б.Ковалева [и др.] – М.: «Профобразование»,2001. – С. 6 – 21, 178 - 190
Key terms: a dialect, the orthoepic norm, a phonetic style, phonostylistics