Questions:

1. Describe the difference between phonetics and phonology.

2. What is phonological system?

3. Speak about the phonetic interpretation of words, history and meaning.

4. Speak about the IPA and the dimensions of speech production.

5. . Describe the traditional approach to the classification of segments introduced by D. Abecrombier.

6. What is D. Abecrombier’s classification of consonants?

7. Introduce J.Laver’s classification of segments.

8. Speak about different approaches to articulatory classification of English consonants. Give examples of some of them.

9. . Speak about different approaches to articulatory classification of English vowels. Give examples of some of them.

Additional questions and tasks:

1. Name the main articulators and give examples of their performance in sound production.

2. Transcribe the following words and draw a vowel quadrilateral to indicate the positions of all the vowels from these words:

bread, pull, rough, cough, foot, mat, hymn, anything, village, gaol, mountain, raspberry, psychology, good, butcher.

3. What is vowel? Characterize the vowels from the following words:

many, fog, butter, matter, board, foot, book, fur, risk, meet.

4. What is consonant? Characterize the consonants from the following words:

judge, kitchen, wrong, well, year, thorn, there, high, mist.