Questões de Concurso

Regarding English pronunciation and stress, mark T for true and F for false.
(__)In standard descriptions of English, the noun record and the verb record may be distinguished by a shift in primary stress.
(__)Unstressed grammatical words may undergo vowel reduction in connected speech, which helps explain pronunciations involving schwa.
(__)Words with similar spelling necessarily preserve the same stressed syllable when derivational suffixes are added.
(__)English spelling provides useful information about pronunciation, but grapheme-to-sound relationships are not consistently one-to-one.
The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is: 

Within the paradigm of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), Jennifer Jenkins (2000) argues that successful communication relies on mutual intelligibility rather than conformity to native-speaker norms. Based on this perspective, which pedagogical practice is the most appropriate for teaching listening and speaking? 

During pronunciation activities, a teacher asks students to notice sound contrasts, plural endings, word stress and rhythm in spoken English. Considering basic principles of English phonetics and phonology, mark T for true and F for false.
(__)The contrast between ship and sheep shows that a change in a vowel sound may distinguish word meaning in English.
(__)The plural ending written as -s may be pronounced differently depending on the final sound of the noun, as in cats, dogs and buses.
(__)Stress placement can contribute to differences in pronunciation between some nouns and verbs, as in certain uses of record.
(__)English rhythm is based on giving approximately equal duration and prominence to every syllable in an utterance.
After analyzing the statements, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom. 

Match the connected-speech phenomena in Column I with the descriptions in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Weak-form reduction. 2.Assimilation. 3.Elision. 4.Resyllabification/linking.

COLUMN II
(__)A segment changes some of its phonetic properties under the influence of a neighboring segment.
(__)A function word that has a full citation form is realized with reduced prominence and frequently with a centralized vowel in unstressed speech.
(__)A segment expected from the citation form is omitted in a phonologically favorable connected-speech environment.
(__)A consonantal segment at the edge of one word is perceptually associated with the following vowel-initial syllable in fluent speech.



The correct sequence, from top to bottom, is:

A palavra em que a letra u é pronunciada assim como em “number” encontra-se na alternativa