Register Number: 7173

Total No. of Pages: 2

Name of the Candidate:

P.G. DIPLOMA EXAMINATION – 2012

(ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING)

(paper – I)

110. PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH

May) (Time: 3 Hours

Maximum: 100 Marks

SECTION-A

Answer any FIVE questions. (5× 8= 40)

All questions carry equal marks

/ What is phonology?
/ What is articulatory system?
/ What are cardinal vowels?
/ Define Affricates.
/ Describe the syllable.
/ Give an account of the consonants according to the place of articulation?
/ Mark stress in the following sentences
a)Please close the door.
b)When did you home yesterday?
/ What is communication?
/ What are central vowels?
/ Transcribe the following phonetically
a) Morning b) wantc) successc)workd) Cool
e) bottle f) trendg) Falseh) darki) grand
SECTION-B
Answer any THREE questions (3 ×20 = 60)
All questions carry equal marks
/ a) Describe the organs of speech.
(OR)
b) Write an essay on consonants.
/ a) What are front vowels? Explain.
(OR)
b) Discuss consonant clusters.
/ a) Illustrate sentence stress and word accent.
(OR)
b) Bring out the importance of intonation.
/ a) How are the four language skills inter-related?
(OR)
b) Comment on the relevance of effective communicate skills.
/ Give a phonetic transcription of the following and mark the stress wherever
necessary.
a) A: Ms. Jananai, when did you come?
B: Sir, I came this morning?
A: How did you spend your holiday?
B: At my ancestral house in the village, Sir.
A: where is you village?
B: In interior Kerala near Trivandrum.
A: I also would like to visit your village.
B: Most welcome, sir I shall take you next time.
b) A: Good morning children today we shall discuss the tour.
B: Yes mam, where are we going?
A: To Ooty during the pooja holidays.
B: So, nice, for how many days mam?
A: It is for three days you get the permission from your parents.
B: Today itself , we shall inform our parents.
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