级专升本英语专业专升本复习资料份考试资料英语语音学复习资料.docx

1、级专升本英语专业专升本复习资料份考试资料英语语音学复习资料实用英语语音 复习资料1I. Multiple choice 1. According to the rules of _, the phrase “light pencil” should be produced as laippensl . A. liaison B. loss of plosion C. assimilation D. elision2. Which of the following part of speech is included in information words ?A. noun B. verb C

2、. possessive D.adverb3. Which one in the following is not the feature of weak forms of words?A. reduction of the length of soundsB. obscuration of vowels towards the schwaC. elision of vowels and consonantsD. emphasis of certain information4. _ refers to the total pattern of pitch changes, i.e. the

3、rising and falling of the voice when a person is speaking, within an utterance. A. stress B. rhythm C. intonation D. tone5. Which statement in the following is NOT true?A. Different pitches may indicate different meanings for the same utterance.B. Different pitches help us express our feelings.C. In

4、 listening to the meaning of an utterance, we listen to how speakers talk as well as to what they say.D. We cannot get the relationship of words within and between sentences through English intonation.II. Fill in the blanks. 1. The short vowel sound in unstressed syllables is very often the sound _,

5、 which is the most common of all sounds in English. 2. In spoken English, the phenomenon of joining words together is called .3. Intonation can be used to remove ambiguity of English sentences. This is the _function of intonation. 4. t and d are two English affricate and they differ primarily in ter

6、ms of _ 5. The placement of nucleus depends on the information content: the more predictable a words occurrence is in a given context, the its information content is. 6. An intonation unit usually corresponds to a group.7. The frequent occurrence of the syllable is one of the fundamental characteris

7、tics of spoken English, and the one that most distinguishes English from Chinese. 8. The syllable which carries a maximal prominence in the tone unit is called . 9. Rhythm in English speech is based on .10. According to the manner of articulation, the sound p and t are _consonants while m and n are

8、_consonants.11. Intonation can be used to convey feelings and attitudes. The _intonation is said to be more often associated with feelings of hesitation, contrast, reservation or doubt. 12. According to the place of articulation, the sound and are . 13. Head in an intonation unit extends from the sy

9、llable up to the nucleus.14. There are 4 front vowels in English. They are i, , and .15. The sound is described as voiceless, glottal, fricative. 16. A is a distinctive sound which is capable ofdistinguishingonewordoroneshapeofawordfromanotherin a given language.17. There are are pure vowels and are

10、 diphthongs.III. True or False 1. The phrase “next year” in quick colloquial speech is pronounced as neksti . This phenomenon is known as contextual elision. 2. English speakers usually stress all words only when they are impatient or angry. Different pitches may indicate different meanings for the

11、same utterance. 3. English native speakers can easily understand you when you pronounce clearly one syllable after another. 4. Variation of words or syllables that have strong stress with those that have weaker stress is typical and contributes to the rhythm of English. 5. When English speakers spea

12、k, they make almost all parts of words with equal strength and length. 6. As the smallest phonetic unit of language, speech sound is distinctive. 7. The first part of a diphthong is much shorter and weaker than the second part. 8. A nucleus can be on any word or phrase in an intonation unit. 9. In s

13、peech, people often use the falling tone to indicate new information and the rising tone to indicate “shared” or “given” information. 10. The weak form of your is j as in the colloquial sentence “Take your time.” 11. To make natural linking, it is important to say groups of words in one breath and k

14、eep our voice going from one word to the next. 11. In the rhythmic pattern of an English sentence, the stressed syllables follow each other at roughly equal intervals of time. 12. Not all languages in the world have their own rhythmic patterns. 13. In the rhythmic pattern of an English sentence, whe

15、n there are function words between the strong stresses, we cannot reduce the vowels (using the weak vowel or schwa) to make them short. 14. The location of the tonic syllable is of considerable linguistic importance. For contrastive purposes, any word may bear the tonic syllable. 15. Both English an

16、d Chinese depend on the correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed syllables recurring in the same phrase or sentence in the expression of ideas. 16. All of the prefix cant be stressed, such as submit and telegram. 17. When a function word occurs at the end of a sentence, it also keeps weak. 1

17、8. According to the work of vocal cords, d is a voiced sound. 19. Vowels are all voiced. 20. In an English utterance, stressed words give information to the listener and unstressed words join information words together. IV. Answer the following questions and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 1

18、. The intonation used in question-tags can have a rising tone or a falling tone, which is showed clearly in the following sentences. A. Theyre coming to morrow, arent they?B. Theyre coming to morrow, arent they?(1) Do the above two utterances have the same meaning? (2) If not, explain the semantic d

19、ifferences between these two utterances. 2. What are the three degrees of stress in English? Define them and illustrate them with examples. 答案I. Multiple choice1-5CCDCD II. Fill in the blanks. 1. 2. liaison 3. grammatical 4. voicing 5.lower6. sense或者word 7. unstressed 8. nucleus 9. stress 10. plosiv

20、e, nasal 11. falling-rising 12. inter-dental 13. first stressed 14. i:, e 15. h16. phoneme 17. 12, 8或者twelve, eightIII. True or False 1-5 TTFTF 6-10 FFTTT 11-15 TFFTF 16-20 FFTTTIV. Answer the following questions and write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 1. The intonation used in question-tags can

21、 have a rising tone or a falling tone, which is showed clearly in the following sentences. A. Theyre coming to morrow, arent they?B. Theyre coming to morrow, arent they?(3) Do the above two utterances have the same meaning? (4) If not, explain the semantic differences between these two utterances. 答

22、案：（1）These two utterances have two different meanings. （2）Utterance A has a falling tone, the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct, and simply asking for conformation. （3）Utterance B has a rising tone, the speaker indicates a lesser degree of certainty and the speaker is

23、asking for information. 2. What are the three degrees of stress in English? Define them and illustrate them with examples. (1) Three degrees of stress can be found in English: primary, secondary and zero. （3%）(2) Primary stress refers to the strong emphasis a speaker puts on the most important sylla

24、ble of a particular word. Secondary stress refers to a less strong emphasis on the next most important syllable. Zero stress refers to any syllable that receives no stress, such syllables are called unstressed syllables. (3) In words like timetable /taimteibl/ and operation /prein/, all three degree

25、s of stress can be found. 实用英语语音 复习资料2I. Multiple choice 1. Which of the following words is wrongly stressed?A. nationnality B. majority C. industrial D. nominate2. How many syllables are there in the word “accompany”?A. 3 B.4 C.2 D.53. A unit is formed by a stressed syllable, together with unstress

26、ed syllables which may come before that stress and/or after it. A. rhythm B. tone C. intonation D. stressed4. The vowels which the tongue moves towards are called _. A.centring diphthongs B. cardinal vowelsC.triphthongs D. closing diphthongs 5. According the linking principle of English, we should i

27、nsert in “the idea of”.A. j B. w C. r D. t 6. When English speakers are speaking, they usually do the following except _. A. make some parts of words stronger and clearer than other parts.B. arrange words into groups and join them togetherC. never join parts of the words togetherD. make some words s

28、tronger and clearer than other words7. In spoken English, we blend or join the final consonant of one word with the initial vowel of the following word, as in “postoffice”. This phenomenon is called _.A. assimilation B. elision C. linking D. combination8. In which of the following words, the “ed” is

29、 produced as d? A. laughed B. changed C. wretched D. naked 9. _ refers to the total pattern of pitch changes, i.e. the rising and falling of the voice when a person is speaking, within an utterance. A. stress B. rhythm C. intonation D. tone10. Which word is the nucleus of the sentence “I am WRIting

30、a LETter to him NOW.” when it is normally used? A. write B. letter C. I D. now11. Nucleus placing is important as English speakers use nucleus to do the following except _. A. To focus listeners attention B. To make meaning clearC.To contrast information D. To make the utterance sound smooth12. Any

31、unstressed syllable or syllables that may precede the “head”, or the “nucleus” if there is no head, are called the “ ”.A. tail B. pre-head C. head D. nucleus13. If the speaker whats to highlight direction, which word of the sentence “They flew to London.” should have the nucleus? A. they B. flew C. to D. London 14. Which of the underlined letters is produced differently from others?A. hardware B. declare C. apparently D. compare15. Can you ask him to come back to the office at eight?