с контрольной!! Practical tasks
1. State distinctive features that make these oppositions phonologically relevant. cap — cab; supper — suffer; till — chill; thigh — shy; rub — rum; latter — ladder; park — part; murder — merger; save — shave; bad — ban; coal — goal; raider — razor; share — chair; log — long; thick — sick.
2. Sort out the oppositions under the following headings: (a) labial vs. forelingual, (b) labial vs. mediolingual, (c) labial vs. backlingual, (d) forelingual vs. mediolingual; (e) forelingual vs. backlingual: pat — cat; leap — leak; wield — yield; seem — seen; tame — came; less — yes; rudder — rugger; drew — due; supper — succour; wail — Yale; coming — cunning; sinner — singer; bitter — bicker; clue — cue; bad — bag; sung — young; bat — back; dear — gear; rung — young.
3. State which of the pairs illustrate (a) occlusive vs. constrictive, (b) constrictive vs. occlusive-constrictive, (c) noise vs. sonorants: pine — fine; fair — chair; boat — moat; seek — seen; kick — king; work — jerk; bee — thee; deed — need; thine — wine; vain — lane; came — lame; fame — same; sick — sing.
4. Read these pairs of words. State what principles of vowel classification they illustrate: cod — cord; kettle — cattle; firm — form; fool — full; add — aid; law — low; sit — seat; pull — pill; very — vary; pen — pain.
5. Read these words and state what movements of the tongue make the vowel phonemes different: bed — bird — bud — bard bid — bird — bud lack — lurk — luck — lark lid — led — lad hat — hurt — hut — heart big — beg — bag
6. Characterize principle variants of the phonemes below and their subsidiary variants in the following words.
[t] — stop talking; try; written; little; twice; eighth; that day; tall.
[l] — clean, railway, filthy; look; mill; all right.
[u:] — music; too — tool — tooth; cool; soon — sooner; stupid — stupidity.
общий Did he take off his hat and say "Good afternoon" to the customs officer?
альтернативный Did he take off his hat or his coat?
разделительный Не always took off his hat and said, “Good afternoon”, to the customs officer, didn't he?
специальный What did he take off always? What did he say to the customs officer always?
к подлежащему Who always took off a hat and said "Good afternoon" to the customs officer?
2. 'The old customs officer was almost crazy because he didn’t know what it was.
общий Was the old custom officer almost crazy because he didn't know what it was?
альтернативный Was the old customs officer almost crazy or happily laughening?
разделительный The old customs officer was almost crazy because he didn’t know what it was, wasn't he?
специальный Why was the old customs officer almost crazy?
к подлежащему Who was almost crazy because didn't know what it was?
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I can always ask for advice and he will be more than happy to answer and help me.