Illustrate the connection of phonetics with grammar, lexicology and stylistics with your own examples

Define the type of mistakes in the examples below and prove your answer. Give examples.

Name the articulating organs and write their names down.

The Subject-matter of Phonetics

Seminar 1

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What does phonetics study?

2. What is the difference between a phoneme and an allophone?

3. Give the definition of the term “transcription”. What rules of writing transcription do you know?

4. Speak on phonetic and phonological mistakes.

5. Describe the stages of speech production.

6. How do the power, vibrator, resonator and obstructor mechanisms work?

7. What is the difference in the position of the soft palate in the production
of oral and nasal consonants?

8. How do the vocal cords work?

9. What are the branches of phonetics?

10. How is phonetics connected with other sciences?

2. Give the definition of the terms:

Phonetics, segmental phonetics, suprasegmental phonetics, phoneme, allophone, transcription, phonetic mistake, phonological mistake, hard palate, soft palate, teeth ridge, articulatory and perceptive branch of phonetics, acoustic branch of phonetics, functional branch of phonetics.

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· use of Russian sounds instead of English ones

· pronunciation of a long phoneme instead of a short one

· incorrect pronunciation of an allophone of a phoneme

· incorrect use of the nuclear tones

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