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The language levels toolkit (linguistic methods)
Quick questions on Phonetics, phonology and prosody: analysing sound and speech - OCR A-Level English Language
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What is the phonological toolkit?Show answer
A focused set of tools covers most phonological analysis, and naming them precisely is the AO1 foundation.
What is move from feature to effect?Show answer
The habit that separates bands is the move from feature to effect. Naming a sound feature ("there is sibilance here") earns AO1; reading what it does earns AO3. Each point names the feature, quotes briefly, and reads the effect for the purpose, or, in child data, the developmental signal.
What is a model phonology paragraph?Show answer
"The campaign slogan loads its stressed syllables with plosives ('Buy British, Back Britain'), and the hammered sounds give the line a percussive, assertive rhythm that suits its purpose: a slogan must be punchy and memorable, and the plosives, reinforced by the alliteration and the balanced stress pattern, make the phrase land like a chant rather than a sentence." This names features (plosives, alliteration, stress) and reads the effect against purpose.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the difference between phonetics and phonology? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name two phonological simplification processes typical of early child speech. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Analyse how phonological patterning in a text contributes to its effect. [10 marks]
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