Stress Rhyme Rhythm Intonation

Sounds

T.Pr in a secondary school is centered on the idea of approximation, which means

reducing the amount of phonetic material (6 types of English intonation are not studied);

admittance of some deterioration of pronouncing particular sounds (t,d,l,n,th,r), which does not disrupt communication between speakers.

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In its syntactical function intonation serves:

1. to differentiate between the communicative types of sentences;

2. in its emotional function – it contributes to conveying the speaker’s conversation, to the interlocutor;

3. in the function of separation it can promote differentiation of essential information from insignificant one.

The criteria to the selection of minimum pronunciation for a secondary school:

v adequateness to the needs of communication: The minimum intonation comprises 4 types of intonation patterns corresponding to 4 communicative types of sentences: statements, imperatives, questions, exclamations.

v Styles of speech.

v Normal/standard pronunciation: it means excluding jargonisms, elliptical forms (‘cause, gimme, it aint gonna happen, wanna).

Groups of English phonemes

vowels (long and short) consonants,

double vowels, or diphthongs, which have their positional

which are strange to Ukrainian-speaking pupils variants

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The general regularities of the English pronunciation:

· no palatalization of consonants;

· no devoicing of voiced consonants in the final position or before the voiceless consonants: eyes-ice, back-bag

· observing short and long vowels:e.g. sheep or ship

· making two stresses in a long word.

By Pronunciation habits we mean habits of phonetically correct pronunciation in speech of all the sounds studied and recognition of all the sounds studied while listening to the speech of others.

By intonation habits we mean habits of producing intonationally and rhythmically correct speech and comprehension of the speech of others.

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