1. What is speech rhythm?
2. What are the characteristic features of English rhythm?
3. How does the English rhythm differ from Russian?
4. What is a rhythmic group?
5. In what way will you divide the following sentences into
rhythmic groups?
'I hope you won't be late for your train.' 'I read an account of it in The Morning Star.'
6. Is the influence of rhythm in speech very important?
7. How are initial unstressed syllables preceding the stressed one pronounced?
8. How are any unstressed syllables that follow the stressed one pronounced?
9. What is the influence of rhythm on unstressed syllables?
10. Should there be any pause or break within an intonation group?
11. Say what you know about rhythmical variations of stress in compounds (adjective — noun; adverb — adjective, adverb — verb) when they are used in connected speech:
(a) when final, and immediately preceded by a stress,
(b) when a stress immediately follows the word.
Give your own examples using the following words: fourteen, good-natured, well-known, put off, look through, afternoon.