Lavrenchuk Y. Orthoepic and Orthothonic Variation in the English Speech of the British, Americans and Canadians (an Experimental Phonetic Study).

The study was carried out with the purpose of researching orhtoepic and orthothonic variation in the speech of the British, Americans, and Canadians by way of the auditory and acoustic analyses of the vowel and consonant segments of the English language witha further linguistic interpretation of the obtained experimental data. The thesis presents phonetic peculiarities of the speech of the native English speakers under study. They are determined by the established orthoepic norm, by a significant influence of the geaographical area the English speakers come from, and by the spontaneity of their speech. The study was carried out with the purpose of researching orhtoepic and orthothonic variation in the speech of the British, Americans, and Canadians by way of the auditory and acoustic analyses of the vowel and consonant segments of the English language with a further linguistic interpretation of the obtained experimental data. The thesis presents phonetic peculiarities of the speech of the native English speakers under study. They are determined by the established orthoepic norm, by a significant influence of the geaographical area the English speakers come from, and by the spontaneity of their speech. The orthoepic norm is viewed as the Standard Pronunciation, which consists of a set of phonetic units and rules of using them in speech. These rules are subject to certain laws and are implicitly accepted by language speakers during a given time period in a certain geographical area in a given language environment. The norm is divided into codified and real. The codified one is consciously fixed, traditional, stable, obligatory, subjective, which pertains to the plane of language. The real one, on the other hand, is objective, selective, dynamic, changeable, which pertains to the plane of speech.