Seminar 4 Typology of phonetic and phonological level of English, Uzbek and Russian Languages

Seminar 4
Typology of phonetic and phonological level of English, Uzbek and Russian Languages

►Classroom activities

Exercise#1. Group work. Divide into small groups. Discuss and analyze the following topics. Compare given topics and present their similarities and differences to others.


Exercise#2. Answer the questions.

1. 
   What is a vowel?
   
2. 
   What is consonant?
   
3. 
   What kind of differences can be between vowels and consonants?
   
4. 
   Tell about the principles of vowels' classification.
   
5. 
   Find at least 3 similarities of English and Uzbek vowels.
   
6. 
   Give 3 differences between English and Uzbek vowel phonemes.
   
7. 
   Give 3 distinctive features of English and Uzbek vowel phonemes.
   

Exercise#3. Stress can be divided into all compared languages.
a) in small groups complete the clusters.
In English:



In Russian:





In Uzbek:





3 b) Compare completed clusters and find 3 similarities, differences and distinctive features of the stress in 3 languages.

►Home activities

Exercise#1. Complete the table and Compare vowels according to the tongue position in 3 languages:

	front vowel	front-retracted vowel	central vowels	back vowels	back-advanced vowel
English
Uzbek		-			-
Russian		-			-

Exercise#2. Compare Uzbek, Russian and English vowels according to the vertical position of the tongue.

	narrow	mid	Broad
Uzbek
Russian
English

►Activities for self-improvement

Exercise#1. Do the following tasks.

1. 
   Characterize the following syllables according to the distribution of vowels and consonants (open, close)
   

Do, took, tree, lit, blue, stay, dog, pie, stamp, out, put, eye, act.

2. 
   Group the following words according to the number of syllables.(1,2,3,4,5)
   

Military, politics, problematic, machine, come, millet, communal, problem, coming, mechanical communist, politician, mechanize, probe.

3. 
   Divide the following words into syllables:
   

Cottage, family, pity, table, fishing, exam, education, January, parents, introduce.

4. 
   Put the stress mark in the following words:
   

Apple-tree, examination, police, hatto, introduction, fourteen, house wife, ammo, barcha.


Test yourself on Typology of phonetic and phonological level of English and Native Languages

1. 
   The smallest unit of sound distinguishing meaning is called a ...
   

1. 
   phone
   
2. 
   morpheme
   
3. 
   phoneme
   
4. 
   allophone
   

2. 
   A fricative and an affricate differ in ...
   

1. 
   pressure phase and friction phase
   
2. 
   Nothing
   
3. 
   place of articulation
   
4. 
   the manner of articulation
   

3. 
   A voiced and a voiceless sound differ in ...
   

1. 
   There is no difference
   
2. 
   the direction of the air stream
   
3. 
   aspiration
   
4. 
   vocal chord action
   

4. 
   In which of these words is the vowel the shortest?
   

1. 
   bean
   
2. 
   bead
   
3. 
   bee
   
4. 
   beat
   

5. 
   … which is mainly concerned with the functioning of phonetic units in the language.
   

1. 
   segmental phonetics;
   
2. 
   practical phonetics;
   
3. 
   suprasegmental phonetics;
   
4. 
   theoretical phonetics.
   

6. 
   The branch of phonetics that studies the linguistic function of consonant and vowel sounds, syllable structure, word accent and prosodic features, such as pitch, stress and tempo is called …
   

1. 
   phonology;
   
2. 
   instrumental phonetics;
   
3. 
   practical phonetics;
   
4. 
   theoretical phonetics;
   

7. 
   … studies the larger units of connected speech syllables, words, phrases, texts.
   

1. 
   segmental phonetics;
   
2. 
   theoretical phonetics;
   
3. 
   practical phonetics;
   
4. 
   suprasegmental phonetics.
   

8. 
   How many vowels are there in the English, Russian and Uzbek languages?
   

1. 
   20, 6, 6
   
2. 
   18, 6, 10
   
3. 
   19, 6, 6
   
4. 
   24, 10, 6
   

9. 
   What language classifies vowels into short and long according to the length
   

1. 
   Russian
   
2. 
   English
   
3. 
   Uzbek
   
4. 
   Polish
   

10. 
    According to the palatalization of the tongue, what language has soft and hard consonants?
    

1. 
   English
   
2. 
   Uzbek
   
3. 
   Russian
   
4. 
   Polish
   

11. 
    According to the passive organs of speech, consonants are divided into:
    

1. 
   Labial
   
2. 
   Dental and alveolar
   
3. 
   Sonorant
   
4. 
   Fricative
   

12. 
    A special prominence given to one more syllable in a word is:
    

1. 
   The pause
   
2. 
   The rhythm
   
3. 
   The melody
   
4. 
   The stress
   

13. 
    Which language has free word stress?
    

1. 
   Russian and English
   
2. 
   Czeck and Slovak
   
3. 
   French
   
4. 
   Kazakh
   

14. 
    What is a syllable?
    

1. 
   Morphemic structure of the word
   
2. 
   One of the speech sounds
   
3. 
   The shortest segment of speech sounds
   
4. 
   Segmental structure of the word
   

15. 
    Find the correct answer where English and Uzbek stress position is correctly shown.
    

1. 
   words in English have mostly 1^st syllable stressed position and Uzbek last syllable stressed position
   
2. 
   words in Uzbek have mostly 2^nd syllable stressed position and English 1^st syllable stressed position
   
3. 
   there is no stable stress position in both languages
   
4. 
   words in Uzbek and English have free syllable stressed position