English Words and Sentences

1. What are “citation form,” “strong form,” and “weak form”? (pp. 107-8)

(1) black and white

(2) the old woman went to Britain and to America

(3) He said that that man bought the same book that I sold two weeks ago.

2. What is assimilation? Can you provide some examples? (p. 109)

3. What is “tone group”? What is “tonic syllable”? (p. 109) How do you define a “tone group”? (p. 110)

Examples?

4. What is the most reliable thing to reflect “stressed” syllable? (p. 113)

Examples?

5. What is the “motor theory of speech perception”? (pp. 113-4) Examples?

6. What are the functions of “stress”? (p. 114) Examples?

7. The relationship between stress and the length of vowels (pp. 115-7) (See Table 5.4)

8. How do we manage the stress in sentences? (pp. 118-9)