Voprosy_-_teorfonetika
.docxTheoretical Phonetics
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The Mechanism of Syllable Division in Various Approaches.
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Identifying Characteristics of General American.
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Articulatory Reasons for Singling-out Semi-Vowels.
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Sonority as a Syllabic Quality and a Vocalic Feature.
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The Mechanisms of Vowel Production as Different from those of Consonant Production.
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Functional Differences between a Phoneme and a Sound in Various Approaches.
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The Prognostication of Syllable Components in English on the Basis of Traditional Sound Clusters.
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The Connection between Tone and Intonation in Various Approaches.
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Aspiration as a Non-phonological Feature capable of Differentiating Meanings.
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Reliable Factors for Syllable Division.
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The Treatment of Intonation Structure in Contour Blocks.
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Glottalization as a Means of Sound Arrangement in the Flow of Speech (Social and Regional Accents).
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Speech Melody as the Basic Meaningful Unit of Intonation.
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The Subject-matter of Theoretical Phonetics.
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The Interconnection between Rhythm and Speech Melody in an Utterance.
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Reasons for Monophthong-Diphthong Comparison in Accent Variations (RP Monophthongs v. Diphthongs in a Regional Accent).
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Reasons for Diphthong-Monophthong Comparison in Accent Variations (RP Diphthongs v. Monophthongs in a Regional Accent).
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The Connection between Pitch and Intonation in Various Approaches.
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Peculiarities of Consonant Distribution in Scottish English.
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Peculiarities of Vowel Distribution in Northern English.
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The Dynamism of Intonation Components.
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The Communicative Value of Loudness (Whisper -> Loudness).
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Articulatory Simplification in Cockney.
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Methods of Phonological Analysis in Defining Phonemes and Allophones.
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Criteria for Revealing the Status of an Affricate.
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Criteria for Revealing the Status of a Diphthong.
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The Problem of the Schwa Vowel in Phonology.
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Diphthongoid as a Transition Unit.
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The Influence of Rhoticism on Phonological Oppositions.
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Voice Correlation as a Variable.
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Fortis v. Lenis Correlation as a Constant.
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Identifying Techniques in Establishing Phonetic and Phonological Features (Description and Classification).
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Principles of Consonant Classification as Different from Principles of Vowel Classification.
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Systematic Features of Facultative Phonemes in RP.
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Loudness in the Arc of Loudness Theory.
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Shibboleths in Distinguishing Welsh from Irish.
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Structural Reasons for the Loss of Phonemes in Regional Accents.
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Articulatory and Auditory qualities of [r] as Dependent on its Distribution (Regional Accents).
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The Functions of Intonation.
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The Articulatory Relationship between Adjoining Sounds in a Sound Chain (Ferdinand de Saussure’s Theory of Syllable Division).