Exam questions on phonetics

1. Organs of speech and their work (active passive organs of speech)

2. Principles of classification of consonants: in the degree of noise, in the
manner of articulation
3. Principles of classification of consonants: in the place of articulation
4. Assimilation
5. Principles of classification of vowels: stability of articulation , lip position ,
character of a vowel end
6. Principles of classification of vowels: tongue position
7. Syllable structure, syllable division
8. Modification of vowels in connected speech; Reduction
9. Word stress; degrees of word stress
10. Position of word stress
11. Words with primary and secondary stress; words with two primary stresses
12. Stress in compound words
13. Word stress and rhythm
14. The distinctive function of word stress
15. The notion of intonation and its components
16. Intonation groups; intonation patterns
17.The nucleus; communicative types of sentences; nuclear tone