Topics in the final test
Completion requirements
List of examined topics.
- Phonetics and speech communication.
- Speech organs.
- Vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs).
- Consonants (obstruents and sonorants).
- Assimilation, coarticulation and elision.
- Words in isolation vs. in connected speech. Linking.
- Melodic inventory of English.
- Functions of intonation.
- Syllable and phonotactics.
- Vowel reduction, weak forms of grammatical words.
- Lexical stress (phonetic realization and placement).
- Stress in simple, complex and compound words.
- Rhythmic structure of an utterance. Eurhythmy.
Allophonic transcription comprises: aspiration, devoicing, pre-fortis shortening, dark-L (in addition to phonemes, stresses and linking).