Theory of English Phonetics

  Theoretical Phonetics of English 014 Secondary Education   Seminar 4 1.                 Segmental and suprasegmental phonology. Different approaches to the definition of intonation; its components on the acoustic and perceptual levels. 2.                 Functions of intonation. Intonation/prosody as a complex semantic unity of suprasegmental features (prosodic subsystems). 3. Speech melody, sentence stress, rhythm, loudness, tempo and pausation, voice timbre. Their interplay in discourse. 4. Intonation group as a meaningful unit. Constituent parts of an intonation group and their functional loading. 5. Systems of graphical notation of intonation by different phonological schools.   Tasks. 1. Study the key notions: intonology/ suprasegmental phonology prosody intonation speech melody pitch loudness tempo pausation rhythm timbre intonation group graphical notation pre-head head nucleus tail  

  Theoretical Phonetics of English 014 Secondary Education Seminar 3 1.      Syllable as a phonetic and phonological unit. Types of syllables. 2.      Syllable formation theories. 3.      Phonotactics as a branch of phonology. Phonotactic possibilities of English vowels and consonants. 4.      Lexical word stress as a non-discrete phonological unit. Acoustic and perceptual clues to word stress. 5.      Functions of lexical word stress in languages with fixed and free word accent. 6.      Degrees of word stress. Functions of word stress. 7.      Word accentuation tendencies and accentual types of English words. The variability of word accentual structure in connected speech.   Tasks: 1.      Give the definitions of the phonetic terms. syllable types of syllables phonotactics sound clusters onset coda juncture phoneme word stress /accent free, fixed, musical, dynamic, qualitative, quantitative word stress retentive,

  Theoretical Phonetics of English 014 Secondary Education   Seminar 2 1.                 Speech sounds as phonological units. The hierarchy of discrete and non-discrete phonological units. 2.                 Phoneme as the main concept of phonology and its functions. Classification of vowels and consonants. Major types of phonemes in English. 3.                 Basic methods of phonological analysis. Phoneme theories. Schools of phonology. 4.                 Feature theory. The system of phonological oppositions. Phonologically relevant features of phonemes. Modifications of phonemes in speech continuum. 5.                 Articulation basis of English. Basic phonological rules. Modifications of English vowels and consonants in connected speech.   Tasks: 1.      Give the definitions of the phonetic terms. Phonology Phoneme Allophone Distributional method Semantic method Commutation test Minimal pairs Distinctive feature th

  Theoretical Phonetics of English 014 Secondary Education   Seminar 1 1.                 Phonetics: the study of the sound system of language.   2.                 Branches of Phonetics. 3.                 Phonology: the functional aspect of the sound system of language. 4.                 Phonetics at the intersection of linguistic studies. Research in communicative phonetics and language teaching methodology. 5.                 Experimental phonetics and computational linguistics. New speech transmission technologies; machines with a voice control operations; automatic machine translation.   Tasks: 1.      Give the definitions of the phonetic terms. Phonetics Articulatory phonetics Acoustic phonetics Auditory phonetics Functional phonetics General phonetics Special phonetics Applied phonetics Theoretical phonetics Descriptive phonetics Historical phonetics   Comparative phonetics   Phono