ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Exam Topics
English and its accents
Reference accents of English. General American. Received Pronunciation
Phonetics and phonology
Definition. Scope of interest, basic difference
Notation. Transcription symbols in English
Articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics
Organs of speech
7. Respiration, phonation, articulation
8. Sound and its perception. Qualities of tone
Classification of sounds
Vowels and consonants in general
Cardinal Vowels
Monophthongs – articulatory, acoustic and auditory aspect
Diphthongs – articulatory, acoustic and auditory aspect
Triphthongs – articulatory, acoustic and auditory aspect
Quality and quantity of English vowels
English consonants
Criteria of classification and basic description
Plosives – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Fricatives – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Affricates – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Nasals – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Laterals – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Approximants – phonetic and phonological characteristics
Syllable, its structure and function
Syllabic consonants
Strong and weak syllables
Aspects of connected speech
Assimilation, assibilation, affrication, elision and linking
22. Pronunciation styles in English
Suprasegmental features – temporal modulation
Suprasegmental features – force modulation
Suprasegmental features – tone modulation
Sress. Word stress and sentence stress
Rhythm in English
New English Gradation
Strong and weak forms of some English words
Tone of English sentence and its functions
Intonation
Functions of intonation
Phonetics and phonology
Phone, phoneme, allophone
Phonological oppositions, distinctive features
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