- •2.Articulatory classification of speech sounds.
- •5. Methods of the identification of phonemes in a language
- •10. Types of transcription
- •13. Rp as the standard english accent.
- •14. Pronunciatin varieties of british english
- •The Scottish type of English Pronunciation
- •3) Peculiarities of ga intonation.
- •Lingustically relevant degrees of word stress
- •17. The accentual tendencies in English. Basic word stress patterns in English
- •18. Speech prosody. Its perceptible qualities and acoustic properties. Meanings of prosody
- •19. Prosody and intonation. Utterance prosody and its linguistic functions.
- •2. Components of intonation and the structure of English intonation group.
- •3. The phonological aspect of intonation.
- •Functions of prosody
- •20. The components of utterance prosody and units of its analysis. Pitch
- •21. The tonal subsystem of utterance prosody and units of its analysis. Pitch
- •22. The structure of a prosodic contour (intonation group) in English. The functions of its elements. Supraphrasal unities
- •Division of Utterances into Intonation-Groups
- •24. Utterance stress in English, its phonetic nature . And function. The relationship between utterance stress and word stress in English the stress pattern of english words. Tendencies
- •Utterance stress
- •Types of utterance stress. Factors conditioning the location of utterance stress. Utterance stress
- •Speech rhythm and utterance stress.Rhythm
- •28.The phonetic nature and types of speech rhythm in different languages.
- •30. The notion of speech style. Phonetic style-forming means in English.
30. The notion of speech style. Phonetic style-forming means in English.
A number of functional styles: publicistic style, newspaper style, the style of official documents.
The main circumstances of reality that cause phonetic modifications in speech are as follows:
the aim of speech
the extent of spontaneity of speech
the use of a form of speech which may either suggest only listening, or both listening and exchange of remarks
social and psychological factors
These are extra linguistic factors.
Phonetic style is a different ways of pronunciation, caused by extra linguistic factors and characterized by definite features.
The degree of assimilation, reduction and elision may serve to distinguish phonetic styles.
Besides these segmental features, there are prosodic features which enable people to distinguish between different phonetic styles.
Each speaker has a norm of loudness. Each speaker has a norm of speech tempo as well. Pauses also help to distinguish different varieties of speech.
Each style of pronunciation is characterized by a relatively high proportion of definite segmental and prosodic features which are not typical of other styles.