Zhmayeva N. Peculiarities of English-American Borrowings' Phonetic Adaptation within the Field of Informational Technologies (Experimental Phonetic Research)

The thesis focuses on the problem of the language units' variation, i.e. the problem of phonetic adaptation of allophones of the vowel and consonant English phonemes in the English American borrowed terminology within the field of modern informational technologies in mass media newsreaders' speech. The mechanisms of allophonic variation of the vowel and consonant English phonemes in German and Ukrainian speech are defined. The importance of sound complex variety in the recipient language is ascertained to be caused by the compound diaphonic relations between the phonetic systems of the languages in contact as coexisting sound variants. The innovative units (xenophones) in the phonetic systems of the borrowing languages follow the pattern of the corresponding phonemes of the donor language, is proved. Acoustic characteristics of the xenophones are experimentally ascertained, the interferential influence of the donor language is proved. The impact of major social and cultural factors, such as intensity of language contacts, style of speech and the speaker's social status on the innovative phonetic units (xenophones) introduction into speech are defined.