1. What is the main feature of sonorous consonants? Enumerate the English sonorants.
2. What advice regarding the position of the soft palate would you give to a fellow-student who pronounces sing as (sing) instead of (sirj)?
.1. What do sonorants have in common with and what differs them from other consonants?
4. What is the subdivision of the sonorous consonants according to the direction of the air stream in the mouth cavity?
5. Speak about the voicing of sonorants. Does a student of English make a phonetic or a phonological mistake if he does not observe partial devoicing of the sonorants in some positions?
6. Speak about the length of sonorants. Keeping in mind what you know about the positional length of the English sono-
rants what would you advise your fellow-student if he doesn't observe it?
7. What advice regarding the palatalization of the sonorous
consonants would you give to a fellow-student who makes
such errors in his pronunciation?
Suppose a student pronounces Èð as [tip] instead of [lip]. How would you correct the error regarding palatalization?
8. Speak about each sonorous consonant in detail.
9. What kind of mistake do Russian students of English make if
they pronounce [nj instead of (n) eg sing {sinJ instead of [sin]?
10. Suppose your fellow-student pronounces the word sing as (sin]. Is the mistake phonetic or phonological? Keeping in mind what you know about the articulation of [rj] tell him or her what to do with the tongue and the soft palate to eliminate this error.
11. What is common in the articulation of the sonorants [r.j.w]?
12. What articulatory features of the consonants [n] and [1] differ-
entiate the meaning of the words net and /ef ?
13. What advice would you give your fellow-student who pronounces the Russian [j] instead of the English |j)?
14. How would your fellow-student probably pronounce the so-norant [w]? In what way can Russian pronunciation habits interfere?
15. How would a Russian learner of English probably pronounce the English (r]? Can you expect a phonological mistake?
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