Practical tasks.

Transcribe the words below according to the RP and GA standards of pronunciation.

a) dictionary, February, ordinary, category, territory, cemetery, monastery, matrimony, testimony, necessary;

b) elsewhere, midday, peanut butter, apple pie, otherwise, ballet, address, research, adult, cigarette.

c) Asia, cordial, either, leisure, schedule, tomato, vase, missile.

TEST

Choose the odd variant.

1.The standard form of British pronunciation is also called:

a)General English Pronunciation;

b)Public School Pronunciation;

c)Received Pronunciation;

d)Southern English Pronunciation.

2.There are the following types of Received Pronunciation:

a)conservative;

b)advanced;

c)cockney;

d)general.

3.National variants of Standard English pronunciation are:

a)Australian pronunciation Standard;

b)American pronunciation Standard;

c)Canadian pronunciation Standard;

d)Standard Scottish pronunciation.

4.General American is characterized by the following features:

a)Retroflexion;

b)Southern drawl;

c)Nasalization of vowels before and after nasal consonants;

d)Omission of the sonorant [j] in some positions.

Agree or disagree with the statements and correct the false ones.

1.British Received Pronunciation is not homogeneous and stable.

2.The Australian type of pronunciation is American-based.

3.The Western type of American pronunciation is the least regional in character and is called General American.

4.In GA there is no strict division of vowels into long and short.

5.In GA words «weather» and «whether» are not considered homophones.

6.The phoneme [l] in GA has only its light variant.

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