фонетика

[englishland]

я уже год учу фонетику и абсолютно её не понимаю. как бы я не старалась что бы я не читала эта зараза никак у меня не идет. Теперь я еду за границу учиться и мне нужна очень хорошая оценка по этому предмету. у меня сейчас сессия и она меня допустит сдавать этот предмет только если я сделаю четыре домашки. но я нефига не понимаю.
может вы можете помочь я буду вам нереально благодарна. или ваши какие то личные мысли и комментарии по поводу этих работ(если вы понимаете ужасную фонетику) я буду просто молиться на вас если вы сможете помочь.
образцы работ

1.
Transcribe the following utterances. Mark the stressed words, sentence stress, arrange all words in rhythm groups. Expalain each case of the stressed function words.

1 What's the idea of this project?
2 Can you speak Italian? Yes, I can.
3 She's writing an annual report. What are you writing?
4 Is that what you negotiated about?
6 She has written it herself.
7 Don't buy it. It's too expensive.
8 They have read these papers, haven't they?

Write out and devide into syllables the following words:

project
Italian
Scotland
negotiated
expensive
havent
papers
cattle

2.
1 Listen to the dialogue.
2 Transcribe the whole dialogue (notice that the transcription was done during the first semester). Denote in the transcribed text the stressed words, identify the sentence stress (e.g. in the first three lines the sentence stress is already denoted) and arrange the utterances into rhythm/stress groups.
3 Write a tonomgram for each utterance of the dialogue.
4 Comment on the cases of phonetic phenomena in the whole dialogue (nasal plosion, lateral plosion, aspiration, loss of aspiration, relative length of sonants etc.)

Dialogue: Shopping

A: Hello!/ Did you get everything?//

B: Nearly./ I forgot the milk though.//

A: Oh!/ It doesn't matter./ I'll borrow some from Jenny/ next door.//

B: Here they are then./ Tin of tomatoes,/ bread,/ coffee,/ orange juice/ and a dozen of eggs.//

A: What about the butter?//

B: Butter,/ butter./ Oh yes!/ Here it is./ In my pocket.//

A: And the stake?//

B: You didn't ask me to get a stake.//

A: Yes I did.//

B: No you didn't.//

A: Well/ it doesn't matter./ There're some chops in the fridge.//

B: I've got a bottle of whine.//

A: Oh!/ Great!//

B: And some matches./ We've run out.//

A: Clever./ Did you get the washing up liquid?//

B: You didn't ask me to get washing up liquid.//

A: Yes,/ I did.//

B: No,/ you didn't.//

A: Well,/ it doesn't matter.//

3.
1 Look through the table.

2 There are 12 concise definitions of the English monophthongs in the left column.
Identify which of the English monophthongs are correcly defined in the left column and write the corresponding monophthongs in the right column. Identify two definitions that are not precise and change them so that they correspond the remaining two English monophthongs.

Definition

1.unrounded (spread), mixed (or central), mid-open, narrow variation of the mid-open position of the tongue, tense, long, free
Vowel - ?

2 .unrounded, front, low, low, broad variation of the low position of the tongue, lax, short, checked if stressed
Vowel - ?

3 unrounded, front, mid-open, narrow variation of the medium position of the tongue, lax, short, checked if stressed
Vowel - ?

4 unrounded, mixed, broad variation of the mid-open position of the tongue, lax, short
Vowel - ?

5 rounded, back, narrow variation of the high position of the tongue, long, free
Vowel - ?

6 unrounded, central (or mixed), narrow variation of the low position of the tongue, lax, short, checked if stressed
Vowel - ?

7 unrounded, back-advanced, open, broad variation of the low position of the tongue, tense, long, free
Vowel - ?

8 rounded, back-advanced, broad variation of the high position of the tongue
Vowel - ?

9 slightly rounded, back, open, broad variation of the low position of the tongue, lax, short, checked if stressed.
Vowel - ?

10unrounded, front, high, narrow variation of the high position of the tongue, tense, long, free
Vowel - ?

11rounded, back, mid-open, broad variation of the mid-open position of the tongue, tense, long, free
Vowel - ?

12unrounded, front, narrow variation of the high position of the tongue, tense, long, free
Vowel - ?


3 Choose two of the concise definitions from the table and write your chosen definition in a detailed way in a form of a text.
4 Choose three of the English diphthongs and define them.
5 Read the following sentence. The underlined words are the stressed ones. The word that is both underlined and written in bold contains the sentence stress, which is articulated as a high fall. Transcribe the sentence, mark the stressed words, sentence stress, and arrange the words in rhythm groups. Then write a tonogrm for this sentence.


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