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British English Accents
English English | Welsh English | Scottish English | Northern Ireland English | ||
Southern | Northern | Educated Sc.English | Regional Varieties | ||
Southern East Anglia South-West | 1. Northern 2. Yorkshire 3. North-West 4. West Midland |
Questions:
1. What is the characteristics of national variants?
2. Define the difference between a variant and a dialect.
3. Name the types of dialects. Give the examples.
4. Dialect – accent: are these terms identical?
5. Where do pronunciation standards from come?
6. Can people speak two or more dialects? How do we call such a phenomenon?
7. Analyze all English varieties from the point of view of their pronunciation standards.
Seminars
Seminar 1
Topic: The essence of the course of theoretical phonetics.
The aims and purposes of the course. Segmental and suprasegmental phonetics.
Seminar 2
Topic: Problems of phonostylistics.
The norms of the English language. A phonetic style-forming factor.
Seminar 3
Topic: Extralinguistic factors – the speaker’s individuality, temporal provenance, social provenance, range of intelligibility, sex of the speaker. Classification of phonetic styles.
Seminar 4
Topic: The functional aspect of speech sounds.
The phoneme. Main trends in phoneme theory. Methods of phonological analysis.
Seminar 5
Topic: The system of English phonemes.
Consonants. Modifications of English consonants in connected speech. Vowels. Modifications of vowels in connected speech. Sound alternations.
Seminar 6
Topic: Syllabic structure. Syllable formation. Syllabic functions in connected speech.
Syllabic division.
Seminar 7
Topic: Accentual structure.
The nature of word-stress, pitch, quantity and quality of word-stress. The placement of word-stress. The instability due to the different origin of several layers in the modern English word-stock.
Seminar 8
Topic: Intonation.
Pitch, loudness, tempo – the main components of intonation. The number of intonation groups. Rhythm. Stylistic use of intonation.
Seminar 9
Topic: Territorial varieties of English pronunciation.
Functional styles. Dialectology. Spread of English. Standard English.
Themes for the reports:
Model Test Work
Variant 1
1) What is the difference between progressive and regressive assimilation?
a) in the degree;
b) in the level;
c) in the direction.
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