IV. Информационный блок. Peculiarities of English Utterance - Stress.
The peculiarity of the English language, from the point of view of utterance-stress, is the great number of functional words and their very high frequency in speech. The list of functional words that are generally unstressed in speech includes:
articles, prepositions, conjunctions, some pronouns, auxiliary and modal verbs.
According to there pronunciation in an unstressed position it is possible to divide form-words into three main groups:
functional words, always weak in an unstressed position [1, p.82];
functional words (auxiliary and modal verbs, prepositions), which are reduced at the beginning or in the middle of an utterance, but retain their strong form at the end of it [1, p.83-84];
functional words, which retain there full forms in an unstressed positions, but very rapid colloquial speech [1, p. 84-85].
Учебно-методический блок.
Проработайте основные определения и понятия в данных рекомендациях, а также таблицу функциональных слов английского языка [1, с. 82-85].
Самостоятельно выполните тренировочные упражнения [1, с. 85-86].
Вопросы для самоконтроля.
What’sthepeculiarityoftheEnglish language from the point of view of utterance-stress?
What English words are considered to be functional?
What is peculiar about the second group of functional words?
What English functional words are never reduced?
Контрольный блок.
1. Prepare a good reading of the following conversational extracts. Comment on the stressing of the auxiliary verbs and prepositions in the responses.
a) affirmative short and expanded answers
b) negative
short and expanded answers
c) direct or indirect questions with prepositions in final (or penultimate) position
2. Transcribe the following dialogues observing the peculiarities of utterance-stress.
Cheers!
Cheers, Sue! Well, what's the news then? How is everybody? I suppose old Arthur's still there. Still trying to keep everyone in order.
Oh, yeah. He'll go on forever. Nothing changes for Arthur. Or if it does, he doesn't notice. You remember that friend of his, though, the guy who came from Liverpool… He always came on Fridays, and nobody knew quite why.
Oh that tall guy, yeah, had an old Bentley or something, didn't he?
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Could you make up this prescription for me, please?
I'll do it for you straight away.
By the way, what do you suggest for sunburn?
This ointment should clear up the trouble.
Тема «Влияние ритма на ударность слов во фразе»
Краткая аннотация
Данные методические рекомендации предназначены для студентов 2 курса факультета славянских и германских языков при организации КСР по теме «Влияние ритма на ударность слов во фразе». Комплекс заданий, направленный на достижение поставленных целей и задач КСР, разработан в соответствии с учебной программой по дисциплине «Практическая фонетика».
Цель темы− развитие умения ритмической организации английской фразы в процессе коммуникации.
Задачи:
углубить теоретические знания студентов об особенностях влияния ритма на ударность слов во фразе;
развивать умение грамотно организовывать структуру фразы с точки зрения ритмики в процессе говорения;
развивать память, логическое мышление и воображение студентов.
Тематический план
2 курс, 3 семестр
Тема: «Влияние ритма на ударность слов во фразе»
Список основной литературы:
Карневская, Е.Б. Практическая фонетика английского языка: Учеб. / Е.Б. Карневская, Е.А Мисуно, Л.Д. Раковская; Под общ. ред. Е.Б. Карневской. — 2-е изд. — Минск: «Симон», 2005. — 400 с.
Список дополнительной литературы:
Лебединская, Я.Б. Фонетический практикум по английскому языку /Я.Б. Лебединская. — М.: Междунар. отношения, 1978. — 176 с.
Фономатериалы
MP3 DISK to “Practical English Phonetics” edited by E. Karnevskaya. Recorded by Toby Doncaster. Advanced Course.
Информационный блок
Before you start learning the theoretical material make sure that you know the given below words. Transcribe and translate them.
Occurrence, to be accounted for, entity, predetermine, assumption, isochrony, underlying tendency, simultaneously, juxtaposed.