Explain what is meant by the following statements

1. If a word is used in a sentence, the factors determining the degree of stress are more numerous, varied and altogether different from the factors, determining the degree of accent in a word pronounced in isolation.

2. Accentuation tendencies of English are interconnected.

3. The accent gives the finishing touch to creating the phonetic structure of the word as a language unit.

Practical Tasks

1. Put down stress marks on the words below. Consult the dictionary. Translate them into Russian and read according to the stress pattern.

composition, nationalization, anticipation, intersession, overbalance, justification, hospitality, satisfactory, sentimentality, impossibility, idiomatic, artificial, unaccountable, fundamental, representation, characteristic, interrogation, comparable, ascertain, grotesque, antique, employee, career, lemonade, atomic, familiarity, beneficial, efficient, preferable, propriety, active, relative, gratitude, attitudinal, upward;

apple-tree, bystander, birthday, pillow-case, sheep dog, school-boy, suitcase, time-table, inkpot, hair-do, housewife, everything, fire-place, broadcast, newcomer, blacksmith.

2. Mark the accentual elements of these words according to Gimson’s accentual patterns.

important, excessive, relation, unimportant, insufficient, satisfactory, aristocracy, consideration, variability, identification, unreliability, industrialization, impenetrability, unintelligibility.

3. Put down stress marks in these verbs and nouns. Translate them into Russian and use in the sentences of your own.

contrast n — contrast v

forecast n — forecast v

suspect n — suspect v

protest n — protest v

increase n — increase v

record n — record v

transport n — transport v

object n — object v.

TEST

Choose the odd variant.

1.Word stress performs the following linguistic functions:

a)constitutive;

b)auditory;

c)recognitive;

d)distinctive.

2.The tonic stress is characteristic of the following languages:

a)Chinese;

b)Japanese;

c)French;

d)Vietnamese.

3.According to the degree of special prominence the following types of word stress are singled out

a)primary

b)constant

c)secondary

d)weak

4.The following accentuation tendencies influence the position of word stress in the English language:

a)recessive;

b)shifting;

c)rhythmical;

d)retentive;

Arrange the words and word combinations in the proper order to define the phonetic phenomena.

1. Word-stress is
…pitch,…
…marked by…
…quantity…
…the variations in…
…complex…
…force…
…phenomenon,…
…and quality.
…a…

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