1. What a syllable? What are the lines along which a syllable can be analysed?
2. What is the structure of the syllable? Define the peak and the slopes of the syllable.
3. What is the role of sonorants in syllable formation?
4. What do you know about different structural types of the syllable?
5. What do you know about structural differences of English and Russian syllables?
6. Speak on the theories of syllable formation.
7. What do you know about syllable division?
8. How does the syllable perform constitutive and distinctive functions?
9. What is ‘disjuncture’ (‘internal open juncture’), ‘close juncture’ (‘conjucture’)?
10. Give examples to prove the importance of the identificatory function of the disjuncture.
11. What are the principal differences of syllable formation an syllable division in English and in Russian?
Литература
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Практическое занятие № 6
Give syllabic structural patterns of the following English and Russian words; characterize them from the viewpoint of their structure: open, covered, etc.
a) pit, pat, pot, bet, tip, ten, top, took;
пол, бак, ток, час, воз, сон, так, нос
b) fact, taken, rhythm, prism, region, bacon, listen;