The need to teach the comprehension of spoken English. pp. 1-11

2. “Ideal” segments, syllables and words. pp. 12-38

- The phoneme. pp. 12-17

- The consonants of English (Place of articulation. Manner of articulation. “Voicing” and “voicelessness”). pp. 18-33

- The vowels of English. The transcription of vowels. pp. 33-38

- The “ideal” syllable and the “ideal” word. pp. 38-41

3. The function of rhythm. (Recognizing stress. The function of stress). pp. 42-48

4. Patterns of simplification in informal speech.

- Adjustment of phonetic surroundings. pp. 53-71

- Elision. pp. 53-71

- Word boundary markers. pp. 53-71

- Consonants and vowels in the stream of speech. pp. 72-83

- Reduction in visual clues. pp. 72-83

5. The function of intonation. pp. 84-106

- The “ideal” organization of tone groups.

- The “ideal” placing of the tonic.

- Tone group and tonic in spontaneous speech.

- Pitch direction.

6. Verbal “fillers” in speech. pp. 107-124

- Repetition.

- Introductory “fillers”

7. Paralinguistic features. pp. 125-150

- Pitch span.

- Placing in voice range.

- Direction of pitch.

- Tempo.

- Loudness.

- Voice setting.

- Articulatory setting.

- Articulatory precision.

- Timing of segments and syllables.

- Lip setting.

- Pause.

- Constructing a framework.

- Using the paralinguistic features.

8. Teaching the comprehension of spoken English. pp. 156-168

Спецвопросы

1. Phonetics as a science.

2. Methods of phonological analysis.

3. The phoneme theory existing in this country. Prof. Baudouin de Courtenay, Ac. Shcherba and their contribution to the phoneme theory.

4. Prof. Vassilyev’s definition of the phoneme. Three aspects of the phoneme. Functions of the phoneme.

5. Kinds of transcription. Criteria for the choice of the teaching norm of transcription.

6. Intonation. Components of intonation.

7. Functions of intonation.

8. Main parts and types of intonation pattern. Their importance.

9. The ways intonation is marked in the text. The system of staves.

10. Problems of phonostylistics.

11. English outside Great Britain. Regional varieties of the English Language. American English.

12. Pragmatic means used in public speaking.

13. Phonostylistics as a new branch of linguistics.

14. Stylistic Use of Intonation. Informational Style.

15. Stylistic Use of Intonation. Conversational Style.

16. Stylistic Use of Intonation. Phonetic and lexico-grammatical characteristic features of English Fairy-tales.

7. Вопросы к экзамену «Теоретическая фонетика»

1. Phonetics as a branch of linguistics. The main branches of phonetics.

2. The main methods and devices used in phonetic investigation.

3. Phonetics and other sciences (linguistic and non-linguistic).

4. Practical and theoretical significance of phonetics.

5. The conception of the phoneme put forward in this country.

6. The conception of the phoneme put forward abroad.

7. A phoneme as a dialectic unity of three aspects: material, abstractional, functional.

8. Methods of phonological investigation. The distributional method. The semantic method.

9. Two types of phonetic transcription.

10. Principle types of pronunciation in Great Britain. RP as a teaching norm.

11. Regional non-RP accents of English (English English. Welsh English).

12. Regional non-RP accents of English (Scottish English. Northern Ireland English).

13. The system of English vowels. Changes of vowel quality.

14. The system of English consonants. Changes of consonant quality.

15. American-based pronunciation standards of English (American English. General American).

16. Intonation. Its components (rhythm, tamber).

17. Intonation. Its components (stress, tempo, melody).

18. Nature of word stress. Different conceptions of word stress.

19. Types of sentence stress (normal, rhythmic, logical, emphatic).

20. Placement of word stress. Functions of word stress (constitutive, distinctive, recognitive).

21. Intonation, its definition and the main functions. Intonation pattern.

22. Different ways of marking intonation in the text and on the staves. (Different notation systems)

23. Stylistic use of intonation. (Informational style. Publicistic style. Declamatory style. Conversational style).

24. Intonation and language teaching.

25. Problems of phonostylistics.

26. Extra-linguistic situation, main style differentiating factors.

27. The main difference between reading and speaking.

28. Syntactic, emphatic and hesitation pauses. Verbal “fillers” in speech.

29. The role of paralinguistic means in the process of communication (a smile, eye-contact, gestures, facial expression).

30. Pragmatic means used in public speaking.