Study Guide

Dear students, this is the guide I mentioned in our last meeting. Though it belongs to last year, it covers the points we analysed together this year. Contact me in case of doubts.

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STUDY GUIDE  PHONETICS II (special compilation 2012)

1.      Meanings of the p+ tone.

2.      What is the context of interaction?

3.      What does “world changing” mean?

4.      Different meanings of high key.

5.      Solidarity: what notion is this associated with?

6.      What is tonality?

7.      Differences between O´Connor and Brazil´s theories.

8.      Attitudinal and discoursal meanings.

9.      Explain the notions of transacton and interaction.

10.  What is the menaing of p and r tones?

11.  What is the tonic segment?

12.  Notions of pitch concord and  concord breaking.

13.  Orientation: discuss and exemplify.

14.  Unmarked key.

15.  Event sentences

16.  Different ways of signalling old information.

17.  Examples of single and double stressed compounds.

18.  Differences between stress and accent.

19.  Reactivation of information.

20.  Cause-effect / effect-cause relationship.

21.  Rhythm in English and in Spanish.

22.  What does ”dominant speaker” mean?

23.  What intonation is assigned to enumerations?

24.  What tone do we apply the concept of solidarity to?

25.  What tone do we apply the concept of convergence to?

26.  Discuss prominence, paradigms and selectivity.

27.  Provide examples of polysyllabic words and cases of stress shift.

28.  Discuss and exemplify the following notions:
-separateness                                                -a step forward
-new information                                          -a step in the same place
-convergence                                                -reactivating information

-binary opposition                                         -synonymy
-antonymy                                                     -non finality
-dominance                                                   -unmarked key
-solidarity                                                      -adjudication
-agreement/strong agreement                    -equative

       29. Define intonation, suprasegmetal features, stress, accent, prominence, a tone unit, the 3 T´s.

      30. Broad and narrow focus.

      31. Exceptions to the LLI rule.

      32. Functions of intonation.

      33. The “0” tone.

      34. Information areas.

      35. The local meanings of tones.