Theoretical phonetics. Study guide for second year students. Борискина О.О - 40 стр.

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Waitress: Vegetable curry. OK. And how about dessert?
Customer 1: Mm. Let me see. Maybe some pie. Apple pie.
Waitress: Apple pie. And for you?
Customer 2: I'd like cherry pie.
Waitress: OK. One apple pie and one cherry pie. Thank you.

Task 8. What words would you make prominent in part A and part B? What
words in part B contrast with words in part A? What words in part B offer new
information?
1.    A: Do you have it in dark blue?
      B: No, sorry, only light blue.
2.    A: Are you feeling better?
      B: Oh, yes, much better.
3.    A: Should we meet at one?
      B: Can we make it a quarter after one?
4.    A: And the winning number is 5-4-9.
      B: That's my number.
5.    A: Is he an artist?
      B: Actually, a very good artist.
6.    A: Did you say Tom was in the front yard?
      B: No, the back yard.

Task 9. Mark the sentence-stressed words in the following sentences. After you
have found the words, practice reading the sentences aloud.
• John is coming over tonight. We are going to work on our homework together.
• Ecstasy is an extremely dangerous drug.
• We should have visited some more castles while we were travelling through
the back roads of France.
• Jack bought a new car last Friday.
• They are looking forward to your visiting them next January.
• Exciting discoveries lie in Tom's future.
• Would you like to come over and play a game of chess?
• They had to work hard last few months on their challenging experiment.
• Shakespeare wrote passionate, moving poetry.
• As you might have expected, he has just thought of a new approach to the
problem.

Task 10. How do you understand pitch and tone? Ref. [Соколова, 2003, pp.366-
374; Celce-M., 1996, SRM, pp. 54-68]. Complete the information file with
types of tones relevant to ELL.
• According to R. Kingdon the most important nuclear tones in English are:
Low Fall, High Fall, Low Rise, High Rise, and Fall-Rise.
The meanings of the nuclear tones are difficult to specify in general terms.
Roughly speaking, __________________________ of any level and range
expresses certainty, completeness, independence and giving new information.