Бурая Е.А., Галочкина И.Е., Шевченко Т.И. Фонетика современного английского языка: Теоретический курс. – М., 2006. – С. 9-14

Points for discussion:

1. Phonetics as a science. The connection of phonetics with linguistic sciences.

2. Phonetics and social sciences. Phonetics and non-linguistic sciences.

3. The historical development of English phonetics.

4. The sphere of phonetics.

5. Main branches of phonetics.

6. Methods of investigation in phonetics.

7. Phonology – a branch of linguistics.

8. The phonological aspect of speech sounds.

9. Components of phonetic system.

10. Phonological and phonetic mistakes.

11. Methods of phonological analysis. Theory of oppositions.

12. Practical and theoretical significance of phonetics.

Literature:

1. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка: учеб. для студ. вузов по спец. «Филология»: – 2-е изд. / М.А.Соколова, К.П.Гинтовт, И.С.Тихонова и др. – М.: Гуманит. изд. центр ВЛАДОС. – 1996. – С. 9, 11-12, 14-17, 46, 57.

2. Бурая Е.А., Галочкина И.Е., Шевченко Т.И. Фонетика современного английского языка: Теоретический курс. – М., 2006. – С. 9-14.

3. Блох М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка: Учеб. для вузов. – 3-е изд., исп. – М.: Высш. шк. – 2000. – С. 28-29.

Exercises:

Give five examples to prove that phonetics is connected with grammar.

What distinctive oppositions illustrate classificatory groups of rounded and unrounded vowels?

What minimal distinctive feature (or features) makes these oppositions phonologically relevant?

What classificatory principle of vowels can be illustrated by the contrastive pairs given below?

bid - beard

dead - dared

pod - poured

pooh - poor

ass - ice

manner - minor

too - tour

ate - eight

letter - later

at - out

ladder - lower

mass - mouse

Which of the given examples illustrate (a) high, mid, open and (b) front, mixed, back oppositions?

Absent n – absent v

Throw-back, look-out, flashback, lie-down, look-round, all in, head first, head-on, knocker-up, looker-on, runner-up, washing-up, pick-up.