The course in English phonetics and phonology is introductory and presents a general description of modern English pronunciation: RP (also referred to as BBC English, non-regional English pronunciation, etc.), General American (GA), Scottish Standard English (SSE), etc. A contrastive approach is adopted throughout the course. Some of the central issues are: the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech production and perception, the vocalic and the consonantal systems of English and Bulgarian, phonology of the syllable, the word and the utterance, prosodic features of connected speech (stress, rhythm, intonation), intra-lingual and inter-lingual transcription, varieties of spoken English, a brief presentation of alternative phonological theories.
- Teacher: Снежина Димитрова