Sentence Phonetic Analysis Model

Practical Phonetics

Exam (II year)

Task 1. Speak on:

1. The classification of English Consonant Phonemes.

2. The classification of English Vowel Phonemes.

3. Syllable Formation and Syllable Division in English.

4. Types of reduction.

5. Assimilation. Types of assimilation. Degrees of assimilation. Accommodation.

6. The meaning and use of the high / low falling tone.

7. The meaning and use of the high / low rising tone.

8. The meaning and use of the Falling-Rising tone.

9. The meaning and use of the Rising-Falling tone.

10. The main types of heads.

11. The intonation of imperative sentences.

12. The intonation of direct address.

13. The intonation of special questions.

14. The intonation of general questions.

15. The intonation of disjunctive questions.

16. The intonation of alternative questions.

17. The intonation of statements (straightforward, implicatory, friendly).

18. The intonation of parentheses.

19. The intonation of non-final parts of utterances.

20. The intonation of reporting phrases and reported speech.

Task 2. Give the phonetic analysis of the sentence.

Sentence Phonetic Analysis Model

1. Define the communicative type of the sentence.

2. Show the syntagmatic division of the sentence.

3. Lay all the necessary tonetic stress marks in the intonation groups. Define the communicative centers in the intonation groups according to their meaning and modality expressed in the sentence.

4. Transcribe the sentence. Define the cases of vowel reduction and assimilation.

5. Draw the tonogram of the sentence; define the types of scales and the nuclear tones in all the intonation groups.

Task 3. Prepare the proper reading of the text suggested.

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