Explain what is meant by the following statements

1. Syllable formation and syllable division form the dialectal unity.

2. The syllable can be analyzed from four aspects.

3. On the one hand, the realization of the phoneme in different positions in a syllable (initial, medial, final) results in different allophones, on the other hand, qualitative and/or quantitative peculiarities of certain allophones of the phoneme indicate the beginning or the end of the syllable.

4. The syllables are the units within which the relations between the distinctive features of the phonemes are revealed and the stress-pattern of a word as well as the rhythmic and intonation structures of an utterance are realized.

5. The syllable is a specific minimal structure of both segmental and suprasegmental features.

Practical tasks

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

pat, aunt, straw, do, street, or, price, eat, took, I, eight, dry, pea, awe, stamp, art, else, blue.

2. Analyze these words from the viewpoint of phonetic and orthographic syllable division.

worker, pined, cheering, culture, nation, disappear, mistake.

3. Identify the sonority of phonemes in the following words according to O. Jespersen’s scale, mark the peaks of prominence and state the number of syllables.

alone, female, unfortunate, insufficient, machine, unimportant, yesterday, aristocracy, appetite, remarkable, misunderstand, inferiority, window, tomato, satisfactory.

4. Divide these words into syllables.

people, comfortable, cottage, study, kitchen, pantry, several, upstairs, furniture, smoke, orchard, ground, bathroom, modern, own, electricity, January, February, April, August, September, October, Wednesday, Tuesday, urgent, equal, bacon, shriek, dew, ought, student.

5. Give examples of English words having from 1 to 8 syllables.

TEST

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