Single out words with the author’s individual spelling used to sustain the humour.

O the harbour of Fowley

Is a beautiful spot

And it’s there I enjowey

To sail in a yot

Or to race in a yacht

Round a mark or a buoy

Such a beautiful spacht

Is the harbour of Fuoy!

Контрольная работа № 7

Arrange these words into three columns according to the type of syllable structure: (a) closed uncovered, (b) closed covered, (c) open covered.

Took, pray, lifts, at, straw, boy, aunt, texts, clenched, tip, pea, struck, strays, elks, thrust, bet, fact, fret, asks, ebbed, price;

Мгла, рад, ил, ВАГС, кто, от, горсть, та, астр, скетч, взрыв, всласть, сфинкс, чувчтв, сон, Минск, гипс, здесь, злак, что.

Write out: (a) initially weak (finally strong) and (b) finally weak (initially strong) consonants.

Sit, lame, back, miss, sack, grave, tip, tide, top, late, mad, made, nine, till, cake, thick, bat, pin, pine, hate, act, ice, plot, face, hid, fate, stamp, spot, pile, land, mist, mole, mark, gold, cap, nose, fix, harm, merry, horn, start, form.

Divide these words into phonetic syllables.

Comfortable, cottage, orchard, ground, kitchen, pantry, study, several, upstairs, bedroom, nursery, bathroom, furniture, modern, own, electricity, January, Wednesday.

Divide these words into syllabographs (where possible).

Parents, fire, plural, rural, dinner, marry, disappear, speaking, writing, playing, walking, standing, passing, breakfast, potatoes, tomatoes, coffee, cabbage, bananas, berries, pudding, pears, beer, shopping, ironing, housework, mistake, fishing.

5. Mark with /+/ open juncture in the examples below. Turn them into examples with close juncture.

A name for it; a black tie; not at all; that’s tough; I saw her rise; the waiter cut it; I saw them eat; why choose; my train; keep sticking; gray day.

Контрольная работа № 8

Provide these words with necessary stress marks.

Air-raid, birdcage, coalmine, teapot, washstand, mail-bag, dance-music, grandfather, handwriting, shopkeeper, ladybird, office-boy, waiting-room, dinner-jacket, tape recorder, ground floor.

Transcribe the words and put down stress marks in these verbs and nouns. Translate them into Russian.

absent n – absent v combine n – combine v

compress n – compress v concert n concert v

produce n – produce v desert n – desert v

infix n – infix v outlay n – outlay v

Give examples to show the existence of word and form-distinctive accentemes in English and in Russian.

Give examples to illustrate the rules of word-stress for a) prefixal words; b) compound words.

Put down the stress in the sentences below.

1. The abstract is short. Abstract this theory. 2. This accent is on the first syllable. Mark it with a weak accent. He accents the word. It’s the word “son” you are accent. 3. A conflict took place. They conflict with this theory. It’s finished in a conflict. Still, they conflict.

Контрольная работа № 9

Transcribe these words. Use them to illustrate the peculiar feature of the English unstressed vocalism.

Latchkey, simplicity, protest n, skylark, pantheon, bulldog, outdoor, dining-room, into, mildew, woodcut, heart-burn, humpback, highway, simplify, highbrow, convoy, rainbow, raincoat, underwear, armature.

Give some examples from the English language to illustrate the qualitative and quantitative changes of vowels in the unstressed position.

3. Prove the functional independence of the /ə/ phoneme in the English language.

Transcribe the passage below. Write out some examples of the strong and weak forms.

The Guardian newspaper is famous for its misprints. Why, there is even a Guardian misprint preserved in brass for posterity. Some years ago the El Vino wine bar decided to put up a plaque in honour of Philip Hope-Wallace, its most faithful and probably wittiest habitué. And so, mentioning his eminence as a wit, raconteur and critic, it was duly placed above his usual seat on the wall and unveiled at a small ritual.

‘I don’t want to seem ungrateful,’ said the recipient, peering at it closely, ‘but there’s only one “I” in Philip and you’ve put in two.’

‘How can that be?’ gasped the management. ‘We were careful to check with the Guardian.’

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