ANNOTATION 3
INTRODUCTION 4
CHAPTER 1. Articulation of the English vowels 6
1.1 English vowels 6
1.1 English consonants 13
CHAPTER 2. Features of pronunciation in the English language 23
2.1 Accent 23
2.2 Stress, intonation and rhythm 27
CHAPTER 3. Phonetic analysis of CNN announcers’ speech 33
3.1 Goals, objectives and conditions of the experiment 33
3.2 Analysis of prosodic features of CNN announcers’ speech 36
3.3 Coarticulation analysis on CNN news videos 43
CONCLUSION 52
BIBLIOGRAPHY 54
INTERNET RESOURCES 55
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This work is a phonetic study in which an attempt was made to analyze pronunciation features and coarticulation phenomena in the speeches of English and American speakers news broadcasts, carriers of national pronunciation standards. The research material was 6 news video editions of CNN edition.
All tasks were completed in the work. The first part was theoretical and we had to study and give information about two types of pronunciation. There is information about English vowels and consonants and difference between RP and AG pronunciation.
Vowel sounds are sounds, during the formation of which, the air flow freely passes through the oral cavity, without encountering obstacles in its path. Vowels can be one simple sound - monophthong or complex sound - diphthong (like / a / in ice). The vowel system in English includes 20 elements: 12 monophthongs and 8 diphthongs. All consonants are different shades of noise. When they are formed, the air stream encounters an obstacle in its path. Their articulation can be accompanied by the sound of a voice (voiced) or pronounced without it (deaf). The consonant system includes 24 elements.
The second part was a study of different features of English pronunciation. There is information about intonation, accent, rhythm, timbre, stress. In any language, intonation serves for the external design of a sentence. With the help of intonation, our listener understands whether the sentence is a story, a question, a request or an exclamation. Intonation also expresses our emotions: surprise, irritation, joy, discontent. An accent is a phonetic difference frоm a normative language, and a dialect also affects the lexical and grammatical level and is a type of language that is used by a limited group of people connected by a professional, territorial or social community.
The third part was experimental. There are 7 news videos. When broadcasting to an international audience, when a special, neutral approach is needed in building a statement, in the prosody of presenters and announcers traced mechanisms of influence on the audience. Among them is an emphatic discharge word in a phrase, a special pause, and also wavy, emotional intonation in general
The Role of Prosodic Means in Implementation functions of communication and influence in international news discourse requires more detailed study in integrated research using methods of audit and electronic acoustic analysis, as well as mathematical and statistical methods of data processing.
The pace is moderate and rarely goes beyond the average reading pace. The most measured speech is found in news programs with off-screen reading of the summary (in average 140-150 words per minute), which can be explained by the lack of eye contact and a separate channel for the transmission of non-verbal information through posture, facial expressions, gestures, and also studio design - in such conditions requirements for clarity speech goes up. The origin, history of formation and development, as well as major differences between national pronunciation standards Great Britain and the United States, which are in the vowel and consonant system sounds, intonation, rhythm and word stress. The concept of coarticulation is presented, such processes included in it, such as: coarticulation proper, accommodation, assimilation, elision and reduction.
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