Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 24 стр.

            decisions/, and set non-idiometic expressions, e.g. electronic
            virus, Rubic’s cube, acid rain, boot trade etc.
                  Changes in pronunciation.
                  In Modern British there is a tendency to change
            pronunciation of some sounds and combinations of sounds due to
            the influence of American English and some other factors. These
            changes are most noticeable in the speech of teachers and students
            of the universities in the Southern part of England / Oxford,
            Cambridge, London/.
                  There are the following changes in pronouncing vowels:
                  1) shortening of long vowels, especially at the end of the
            word and before voiceless consonants, e.g. see, keep;
                  2) lengthening of short vowels before voiced consonants:
            big, good, come, jam etc. in such adjectives which end in /d/
            lengthening of the vowel is observed all over England e.g. bad,
            sad, glad, mad etc.
                  3) drawling of stressed syllables and clipping unstressed
            syllables.
                  4) In unstressed syllables / / is pronounced instead of /i/, e.g.
            /b’ko:z/, /‘evid ns/ etc.
                  5) In the words consisting of three or more syllables there is
            a tendency to have two main stresses e.g. /’nes’s ri/, /’int’restin/.
                  6) The diphthong /ou/ is pronounced /u/: home /hum/, go
            /gu/
                  7) The diphthong /u/ is pronounced /o:/ e.g. sure /sho:/.
                  Vowels can also change under the influence of consonants:
                  1) after fricatives and consonants /n/ and /m/ /ju:/ is
            pronounced as /u:/ e.g.: resume, music, news, enthusiasm.

                                           Questions:
                      1.   What is lexico-semantic system?
                      2.   How many words are there in Modern English
                           nowadays?
                      3.   What is active vocabulary?
                      4.   What is passive vocabulary?
                      5.   What is basic word stock?

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