the Eastern
type o f pronunciation;
type o f pronunciation;
where is the Eastern type o f pronunciation mainly spoken? For exampls.
in New England (Maine),
New Hampshire,
the eastern parts o f Vermont,
Massachusetts,
In which countries is this type mainly used?
in
Pennsylvania, in the eastern area o f Texas State, Arkansas, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, M ississippi, Louisiana.
What is this type accepted in the USA which is used by 120 million people?
literary pronunciation
What other name is this type called?
Eastern New England speech
One of the specific phonetic
features of this type o f pronunciation is the so-called ........ which is characterized by the diphthongization both long and short vowels in certain positions
Southern drawl
This type o f pronunciation is known as General American (abbreviation GA). what is It also called ?
Standard American English
What sound does this type avoid in the final position o f a word?
/r/
Instead o f /a:/ the vowel /ае/ is used
in the Southern type: for exampls
dance /dæns/, pæth /рæ0/, ask /æsk/
Many speakers of GA use the slightly dark /l/ before vowels and darker one in the other positions, while in the Southern type o f American English a soft /l/ is used in nearly all positions: for example
hill /hil/, pillow
/ptiou/', full /ful/
In New England and in the Boston State American English have some common features with RP pronunciation. They are found in such words like......
dock /dçk/, hot /hçt/, dance /da:ns/,
There are some similar features between the Southern American and RP.
They are the pronunciation o f a soft /1/ before a vowel, the usage of the cluster /ju:/ in words like reputation /repju:teifn/, student /stju:dnt/, duty /dju:ti/, the omission o f /r/ etc.
The following differences exist within the consonant systems of RP and GA. One o f the most striking phonetic features o f General American is observed in ......
the retroflex sonorant articulation o f /r/.
The opposition /hw - w/ exists initially: for exampls
whale /hweil/ - wail /weil/
whet /hwet/ - wet /wet/
Who admits: «The structure of the sound system o f New York is the most amenable to quantitative techniques. Within this system, the question of structure can be approached on a number of levels of increasing complexity»
W. Labov
As what is the glottal stop /?/ used occasionally in words?
an allophone o f the medial /t/ phoneme