Final Assessment Questions on “Theoretical phonetics” Card-1 Connection of Phonetics with Other Sciences

2.Types of English pronunciation.
There is wide range of pronunciation of any language, the English language as well. Moreover pronunciation is socially influenced, i.e. it is influenced by education and upbringing. The varieties that are spoken by a socially limited number of people only in certain localities are known as dialects. Due to communication media (radio, TV, cinema), the increased mobility of the population, concentration of the population in the cities, the dialectal differences are becoming less marked. Dialect speakers are, as a rule, the less educated part of the population. In present-day English the number of local speech dialects is being reduced to a fewer, more or less general, regional types. Every regional type of pronunciation is characterized by features that are common to all the dialects used in the region. The dialects, in their turn, are marked one from another by a number of peculiarities specific to each of them. The orthoepic norm of a language is the standard pronunciation adopted by native speakers as the right and proper way of speaking.


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1.Canadian English pronunciation
Canadian pronunciation is different from British pronunciation. Canadian and American (USA) people speak with North American accent.Canada is a big country. But it’s also a young country so most Canadians speak with the same accent – there are no dialects or big regional differences. Only people in Newfoundland have their own special way of speaking. In other parts of the country – whether you go to Vancouver or Toronto – people speak almost the same.Canadians speak very much like Americans.Canadian pronunciation is more nasal than British (Canadians speak ‘through their noses’).
If you are used to British pronunciation (or Australian, or Indian, or of another English-speaking country), it will be difficult for you to understand Canadian English for the first couple of months. It’s a good idea to get used to it by listening to TV/radio a lot.Canadian words are called Canadianisms.Canadians pronounce ‘r’ sound in all the words where it is written, including ‘r’ at the end of the words. E.g : car // for // four // your
‘t’ changes to ‘d’ E.g: better –> bedder thirty –> thridy party –> pardy computer –> compuder city –> cidy
‘t’ disappears //twenty –> twenny center –> cenner most –> mos