OTÁZKY FONETIKA GRAMATIKA BEZ VYPLNĚNÍ

GRAMATIKA
1. Language typology - morphological/genetic typology - classify/compare
English and Czech. Taxonomy of Morphemes - according to (i) meaning, (ii)
position, etc.
2. Parts of Speech - Criteria for classification (grammatical vs. lexical categories).
3. NOUN: Morphology of Nouns (Case, Animacy/Gender, Countability/Number,
Determination). The structure of English NP and its sentence functions.
4. MODIFIERs: English AP modifiers (Adj./Adv.), their semantics, morphology
and sentence functions (incl. distribution).
5. VERB: Morphology of Verbs (Tense, Aspects, Mood). Classification of Verbs
according to (i) subcategorization and (ii) NICE. English Modals and Auxs, verbs
have and be.
6. Sentence functions (sentence members) - their nature and taxonomy.
Subjects in English - prototypical characteristics and standard deviations in English.
7. English PRONOUNS - taxonomy. Pragmatic and syntactic anaphors. Binding.
8. Verbal (clausal) projection: Complement vs. Adjunct vs. Disjunct . Objects in
English. Passivisation - its format and functions (compare Czech and English).
9. The function and form of sentences. Main clause patterns in English ?
declarative, interrogative etc. clauses.
10. Complex sentence. Taxonomy of subordinate clauses. Relative clauses, WH
clauses.
FONETIKA

1. Phonetic description of consonants: their articulation and their basic acoustic

properties.
2. Phonetic description of vowels: their articulation and their basic acoustic
properties.
3. English speech sounds as a system: their phonological status and distribution.
Types of transcription and their purposes.
4. Articulation and acoustics of English obstruents and sonorants. Classification
of English consonants.
5. Allophonic processes affecting English consonants.
6. Classifying English vowels: articulatory, acoustic and phonological criteria.
Allophonic processes affecting English vowels. Vowels in unstressed syllables.
7. English prosody: Stress and rhythm; intonation, intonation patterns; prosodic
units.
8. English prosody: Connected speech phenomena (e.g. assimilations, reduction
of unstressed function words, elision, compression, linking versus preglottalization).
9. Standard British pronunciation: RP vocalic and consonantal phonemes and
allophones. (non-rhoticity, centering diphthongs, linking and intrusive r,
non-standard phenomena such as l-vocalization and glottaling, variation in the
pronunciation of vowels).
10. Standard American pronunciation: GA vocalic and consonantal phonemes and
allophones.