Questions

Questions

1. How many aspects of speech sounds can be differentiated? Explain the essence of each aspect?

2. Define the phoneme.

3. What is an allophone?

4. What are the three aspects of a phoneme?

5. What allophones are called principal / subsidiary?

6. Define the invariant of the phoneme.

7. What is the difference between distinctive and non-distinctive articulatory features?

8. What types of transcription do you know?

9. What are the main trends in phoneme theory?

10. Enumerate the methods of phonological analysis.

11. How is a speech sound produced?

12. What does the articulation of a sound consist of?

13. What is an articulatory classificationof speech sounds?

14. According to what are speech sounds divided into vowels and consonants?

15. What differences are there between V and C?

16. Explain the essence of

a. articulatory differencesbetween V and C

b. acoustic differencesbetween V and C

c. functional differencesbetween V and C.

17. Classify English RP consonants. What principles of classification do you know?

18. According to what can English consonants be modified?

19. What is connected speech and what is its significance?

20. What does the ability to produce English with an English-like pattern of stress and rhythm involve?

21. What are coarticulatory / adjustment phenomena? Give examples.

22. What syllables are typically articulated precisely and what are weakened, shortened, or dropped in connected speech?

23. Speak on the typology of sound adjustments in connected speech:

	Types of adjustments	Kinds of adjustments
	Adjustments related to C-C linking	1. Assimilations
	Adjustments related to V-V, C-V, V-C linking	1. Liaison 2. Accommodation (adaptation) 3. Glottal stop/hard attack
	Adjustments related to sound deletion/ insertion	1. Elisions (ellipsis or omission) 2. Epenthesis 3. Smoothing
	Adjustments on the syllable level	1. Compression
	Weakening	1. Weakforms