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4. The tasks for independent work during the training for the studies
4.1. The list of basic terms, parameters, characteristics, which the
student should master while training for the studies.
Term
Alphabet
Diphthong
Phoneme
Phonetics
Stress
Penult
Antepenult
Term
Gender
Number
Case
Declension
Stem
Definition
The graphic signs – letters arranged in the certain
order.
A combination of two vowels which are pronounced
as one sound or one syllable.
The minimum speech unit which is singled out of the
continuous speech stream.
The sound structure of the language; the branch of
linguistics which studies the sound structure of the
language.
Stress is an extra emphasis on one syllable in the
words.
Penult is the next to last syllable.
Antepenult is the syllable before the penult.
A term is a word or a word-combination which is a
name of professional concept in any sphere of
science, production or arts.
Masculine – genus masculinum (m); feminine –
genus femininum (f); neuter – genus neutrum (n).
When a noun names one thing, we say it in singular,
when it names more than one thing, we say it in
plural.
A Latin noun has various terminations to show
whether it is used as the subject or the object of a
verb, whether it indicates the idea of possession, and
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