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. 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…

Agree or disagree with the statements and correct the false ones.

1. American linguists distinguish four degrees of word stress.

2. Traditionally in the English language two degrees of word stress – primary and weak are distinguished.

3. The syllable with weak stress is called weakly-stressed.

4. British linguists regard secondary stress as pre-tonic and tertiary stress as post-tonic.

5. The English language is characterized by the fixed word stress.

6. The tonic type of word stress is characteristic of the English language.

7. In the English language there are two distinctive degrees of word stress – primary and weak.

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