Theoretical phonetics. Study guide for second year students. Борискина О.О - 34 стр.

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tell her
last year
suspended from
cold lunch
just now
should have taken
sandwich
handsome
handbag
landscape
landlord
grandma
rock and roll
bread and butter
up and down
handkerchief,
horseshoe,
 newspaper,
 gooseberry

Task 15. How do vowels behave in unstressed syllables? Compare the laws of
reduction in the English and in the Russian languages Ref. [Соколова, 2003,
pp.122-124; Mortimer, 2002, pp.4-25].
                English                               Russian




Task 16. Listen to the utterance (conversation fragment) on the tape and
comment on sound modifications in it. Record yourself and compare your
recording with the authentic tape. Ref. [Bradford, 2002, pp.16-56].

Task 17. Go to “Introspecting About Your Own Language Learning”(p. 47).


Part 4 Word Stress

Issues to Study and Discuss:
   1. Definition of Stress.
   2. Types of Word Stress.
   3. Place and Degrees of Word Stress.
   4. Fixed and Free Word Stress.
   5. Functions of Word Stress.
   6. Accentual Tendencies in English.