ANNÉE UNIVERSITAIRE 2021-2022

Département Anglais:

Epreuve
NIVEAU D’ÉTUDE: Licence 3
UE: UEF 1
Session Initiale semestre 6 Enseignement: C31F611
Code épreuve: C31F611EA
INTITULÉ: Linguistique anglaise
INFORMATIONS: Sur CM
Ecrit- Durée: 1 heure
PUBLIC(s): Assidu Dispensé d’assiduité EAD
ENSEIGNANT·E·S AL. Besnard

Consignes Consignes

Sujet

They said they came from Special Branch, and they had printed cards with
photographs in cellophane cases. The plump one did most of the talking.
‘I believe you were friendly with Alec Leamas,’ he began. She was prepared to be
angry, but the plump man was so earnest that it seemed silly.
5 ‘Yes,’ Liz answered. ‘How did you know?’
‘We found out quite by chance the other day. When you go to ... prison, you have to
give next of kin. Leamas said he hadn’t any. That was a lie as a matter of fact. They
asked him whom they should inform if anything happened to him in prison. He said
you.’
10 ‘I see.’
‘Does anyone else know you were friendly with him?’
‘No.’
‘Did you go to the trial?’
‘No.’
15 ‘No press men called, creditors, no one at all?’
‘No, I’ve told you. No one else knew. Not even my parents, no one. We worked together
in the library, of course – the Psychical Research Library – but only Miss Crail, the
librarian, would know that. I don’t think it occurred to her that there was anything
between us. She’s queer,’ Liz added simply.
John LE CARRÉ, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963)
Part 1: Graphophonemics (14 pts)

For each of the following words taken from the text above, indicate the Southern British
English (SBE) pronunciation of the underlined letter and justify your answer:

1. <u>: plump, occurred

2. <e>: cellophane, creditors, Research, between
3. <i>: printed, kin, lie, trial, library
4. <o>: told, worked
5. <a>: Branch, cards, cases, talking, prepared, angry, matter

Be as concise as possible. You may rearrange the words as you like.

Part 2: Intonation (6 pts)

1. Indicate tone-unit boundaries, tonic syllables and tones in the following excerpt
from the text above (no justification required):

‘Yes,’ Liz answered. ‘How did you know?’

‘We found out quite by chance the other day. When you go to ... prison, you have
to give next of kin. Leamas said he hadn’t any. That was a lie as a matter of fact.
They asked him whom they should inform if anything happened to him in prison.
He said you.’
‘I see.’
‘Does anyone else know you were friendly with him?’

2. Identify the tonic syllable in the following tone unit and justify your answer briefly:
|| no one else knew || (l. 16)