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EXPIRATION /.ekspai'reijen/ — breathing the air out. See EXHALA-TJON..

EXPLOSION /iks'plsussn/, or plosion /'ркизгп/^-nofse made by the air, when it is suddenly released through a ccmplete obstruction. The sounds /p, t, k/ are pronounced with a plosion, or explosion.

EXPRESSION /iks'prejW — thoughts and emotions expressed by words end i tonation.

FACULTATIVE PHONEMES /'fsfcsltativ 'faunlmz/ — such phonemes inJEnglish are Ы and /ээ/. They are not used in all idiolects, where they are replaced by /w,»/. But in those idiolects in which they are used they may dis­tinguish words in minimal pairs, e.g. which — который, witch —- ведьма, more — больше, maw — пасть.

PALL /Ы/ — lowering of the voice pitch within a stressed syllable,

FAMILY OF^SOUNDS /'famuli ev 'saundz/ — D. Jones' term in his pho­neme definition,

FAUCAL CONSONANTS /'fokal, 'kxnssnants/ — occlusive noise conso­nants which are articulated by the soft palate raised against the back wall of the pharynx, which is accompanied by a nasal plosion and results in opening the nasal cavity for the flow of air. Combinatory allophones,articulated in that manner are [t] in the word button or the Russian [6] in обман.

FIXED ORGANS OF SPEECH /'fikst 'otgsnz'av 'spW/, —they are: the upper teeth and the teethridge, the hard palate and the pharyngeal wall.

FIXED WORD,ACCENT /'fikst 'ws:d 'absent/ — this type of accent is
characterized by the fixed position, of stress. ' '. ^

FLAPPED CONSONANTS /'flsept 'komssnents/ — articulated by a single tap of the tip of the tongue against the teethridge. For example: [r] in sorry, very.

FLAT NARROWING /'flset 'naramrj/ — passage for the flow of air, which ^{is m}°«»г less flat. The sounds /f, v/ are pronounced with the flat narrowing.

FLOW OF AIR /'flau sv W —the stream of air.

FOCUS /'fsukss/ (pi. FOCI /'fsusai/) — the place in the mouth cavity,
in which the obstruction (complete or incomplete) is formed in the articulation
of a consonant. Front secondary focus is formed by the middle part of the tongue
raised against the hard palate. Back secondary focus is formed by the back part
of the tongue raised against the soft palate.?•"

FORELINGUAL /'blingwal/ — articulated by the tip'of the tongue raised agams,t the upper teeth or the teethridge. For example: /t, d, n/are lore-lingual consonants.;

FORMANTS /'foments/ — the regions of the spectrogram, which are cor­related with the qualities of vowels or their tembral characteristics.

FORTIS /'foctia/ — strong.

FORTIS CONSONANTS ['tehs 'kpnsanants/ — voiceless plosives and constrictives, which are pronounced with strong muscular tension and strong expiratory effort (compare with Ienis consonants). The consonants /f, p, if are fortis.

FREE ACCENTUAL VARIANTS /'frt ajk'sentjual 'vsariants/— they are variants of individual pronunciation — interidmlectal variants. E.g. 'hos­pitable, hos'pitabte,' рапорт, рапорт.

FREE VARIATIONS — intraidiolectal and interidiolectal variations which are spontaneous, unintentional, non-functional, non-distinctive.

FREE WORD ACCENT /'Frt 'wa:d 'asksant/ — the type of accent which is characterized by the free accidence of the word accent; in different words of the language different syllables can be stressed — the first, the second, the third. Free word accent has two subtypes: a) constant, which always remains on the same morpheme: wonder, wonderfully and b) shifting, which changes its place: сад, садовод.

FRICATIVE CONSONANTS /'fnkativ 'künsanants/ - produced by fric­tion of the flow of air through the narrowing formed by articulatory organs. For example: /v, s. z/.

FRICriONLESS /'frik/anlrs/ — produced without any audible friction.

FRICTIONLESS CONTINUANTS /'fnkfanlis kan'trajuants/— the term may be used in reference to constrictive sonants /w, r, j/, which are pronounced with little noise and can be prolonged or continued. "A consonant having the articulation of a fricative but pronounced with weak force so that little or no friction is audible." (D. Jones)

FRONT OF THE TONGUE /'frAnt sv 9э Члп/ — the blade and the tip of the tongue. The blade and the middle of the tongue in the terminology of Eng­lish phoneticians,

FRONT-RETRACTED VOWELS /'frAtit n'trsktid 'vaualz/ — produced with the front but a bit retracted position of the bulk of the tongue. The vowel /i/ is a front-retracted sound. It is retracted in comparison with the vowel /k/ which is fully front. The nucleus of the diphthong /au/ is also front-retracted.

FRONT VOWELS /'fmnt 'vaualz/ — vowels articulated when the bulk of the tongue moves forward and its front part is raised highest towards the hard palate: /fc, i, e, ae/ and the nuclei of the diphthongs /ia, ei, еэ, ai, au/.

FULLY VOICED /'fuh 'voist/ — consonants pronounced with the vocal cords vibrating from the first to the last stage of their articulation.

FUNCTIONAL /'lAnkJanl/ — phonological, connected with differentia-tory function.

FUNCTIONAL PHONETICS /'fAukJanl fau'netiks/ - the branch of pho­netics which studies the purely linguistic aspect of speech sounds,

FUNCTIONS OF A PHONEME /'lAnkJanz av э 'faunfcm/ — in speech a phoneme performs three functions: 1. distinctive, 2. constitutive and 3. re-cognitive; they are inseparable.

FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY /Дп da'mental 'frtkwansi/ - the fre­quency of the vibrations of the vocal cords over their whole length.

FUNDAMENTAL TONE /,knda'raentl 'taun/ - the sound wave which results from the vibrations oE the whole physical body and which has the lowest frequency.

G

GENERAL AMERICAN, G.A. /'cfcenaral e'raenkon/ - the most wide­spread type of educated American speech.

GENERAL PHONETICS /'dgeneral fou'netiks/ — analysis, description, and comparison of phonetic phenomena in different languages.

GENERAL PHONOLOGICAL RULES /'азепэгэ! _yfauna'bdgrksl 'rulz/ — these rules make it possible to establish the phonemic status of sounds without direct reference to their distribution; they are; 1. the law of great phonemic dissimilarity; 2. the law of conditioned allophonic similarity.

GENERAL QUESTION /'cfcenaral 'kwestjW — the type of a question which demands a yes or no answer, it is pronounced with the rising tone.

GLIDE /glaid/ — that part of a diphthong which constitutes its additional element, the full articulation of which is not accomplished. For example: hi and hi in /ai, ei, is, еэ/ are glädes.

GLOTTAL SOUND /'glutl 'saund/ — when the glottis is narrowed during exhalation, the air, passing out of the mouth cavity, produces an /h/ like sound; that is why /h/ is considered by Prof. A. L. Trakhterov and British and Ameri­can phoneticians to be a glottal or laryngeal consonant (not a pharyngeal one).

GLOTTAL STOP /'glut! 'sttp/ — a sound which reminds a slight cough and is articulated by the vocal cords, before a vowel sound is heard, in cases of emphatic speech.

GLOTTIS /'gltitis/ — the space between the vocal cords, which is the en­trance to the trachea, or the windpipe.

GRAPHEME /'grssffcm/ — an orthographic unit with which a phoneme can be correlated, e.g. t, e, n are graphemes in ten.

GROOVE-SHAPED DEPRESSION /'gruv 'jeipt di'prejen/ is formed in the middle part of the blade of the tongue in the articulation of Is, z/.

H

HARD PALATE /'had 'pmhtl ~ the roof of the mouth.

HEAD /hed/ — stressed syllables preceding the nucleus together with the intervening unstressed syllables.

■ HEIGHT /halt/ — the width of the resonating cavity in the articulation of vowels.

HEIGHT OF THE TONGUE /'hait av бэ 'W — the height to which the bulk of the tongue is raised and which determines the level of the raised bulk of the. tongue: high, mid, or low.

HETEROGENEITY /.hetarabi'nfciti/ — mutually differentiating pro­perties¹ in the sounds which are compared.

HETEROGRAPHY /,het9'rt graft] — the use of similar letters for differ­ent sounds, for example the letter с corresponds to the sound /k/ in the word can and to the sound /s/ in city.

HIATUS /hai'eitas/ — combination of two vowels which belong to differ­ent syllables, For example: doirtg/'dmrj/ — internal hiatus, to order /tu 'o:ds/ — external hiatus.

HIEROGLYPH /'haiaraghf] — a written sign which may be equivalent to a sound, syllable, or a whole notion.

HIGH-PJTCHED SOUND /'hai 'pitjt 'saund/ — a sound, which is high in tone.

HIGH POSITION OF THE TONGUE /'hai ps'zijan sv öa 'tArj/—the position when the dorsum and the front part of the tongue are raised high to the roof of the mouth, but not so high as to produce an audible friction. High narrow vowels /'hai 'nasrau 'vauslz/ /!:, и, ы, у/ are pronounced with the bulk of the tongue raised more higher than for /i, u/, which also belong to the group of high vowels but to their broad variety.

HIGH SPEED X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY /'hai 'spM 'eks'rei ШтэдгэЫ -one of the methods used in experimental phonetics, wnich consists in the pho­tography of X-rayed organs of speech in the process of articulation,

HISS /his/ — noise produced when the air passes through a round narrow­ing and produces hissing noise. The sounds /s, J¹/ are hissing consonants.

HISTORICAL ASSIMILATION /his'tunksl a^imi'leijen/ — sound chang­es, which are the result of the historical development of the language.

HISTORICAL PHONETICS /his'tunkalГ fau'netiks/ - that branch of phonetics, which studies phonetic components on the diachronic level; it is a part of the history of a language, which studies the history of the development of the phonetic laws,

HOLD /hsuld/ — the second stage of a single sound articulation (retention, central, medial stage).

HOMOGENEITY /_#hum9d3&'nhti/ — articulatory similarity of two ■sounds, which is based on similar articulatory work of the speech organs. The

sounds /p, b/ are homogeneous because they are both plosive and bilabial noise consonants.

HOMOGRAPHS /'hnmagrcufs/ — words'.that are similar in orthography but different in pronunciation and meaning^ For example: tear /tea/ разры­вать and tear /tia/ слеза.

HOMOPHONES /'hnmafaunz/ — words that are similar in pronunciation but different in orthography and meaning. For example: air — hair воздух — волосы; buy — bye покупать — что-л. маловажное; knight — night рыцарь — ночь; not — knot нет — узел; or — ore либо — руда.

HYPHEN /'haifan/ — a graphic sign which serves to show syllabic bound­ary.

IDEOGRAM /'idja(u)graem/ — 1. a symbol or a picture which represents and conveys an idea of an object without using its name, for example: a numeri­cal or a pictorial road sign; 2. a symbol representing a word, but not the sounds which constitute it.

IDIOLECT /'idraulekt/ — the individual speech of a member of a language community.

IDIOPHONE /,idia'foun/ — one and the same speech sound which is pro­nounced differently in different idiolects.

IMPEDE /im'plid/ — hinder or bar (articulation, a stream of air, etc.).

IMPLOSION /im'plsu3an/ — the first stage of a single plosive Sound articulation.

INALIENABLE (INDISPENSABLE, CONCOMITANT) FEATURES /m-'eiljanabl,,irtdis'pensebl, kan'komitant 'ffctjW — these features are always present in all the allophones of a phoneme, e.g. two foci in /J, 3, w, 1/ articula­tion, lip rounding in /us/ articulation. They may be distinctively relevant and irrelevant, e.g. seem vs. theme, /s—9/ are opposed due to the flat, round narrow* ing difference, in same vs. fame the shape of the narrowing is irrelevant, /s—f/ are opposed due to the place of articulation difference.

INHALATION /jinha'leijW — breathing the air in.

INITIAL PHASE /t'ntXal 'feiz/ — the first phase of a sound articulation. - INSTRUMENTAL PHONETICS /,mstru'mentl fau'netiks/ — different techniques and devices used In experimental phonetics.

INTERALLOPtfON 1С ALTERNATION /^rintergle'ieunik,oiIt9:'iHH,ren/ — alternation between different allophones of one and the same phoneme, e.g. /n/ alveolar alternates with /n/ dentaf In nine — ninth.

INTERCOMMUNICATION /'intako.mjuaii'keijW — giving or passing information by means of oral speech.

INTERDENTAL ARTICULATION /.mta'dentl o.-,tikj4i'leijW — artic­ulation characterized by the interdental position of the tip of the tongue in articulating/9, 5/. In speech these sounds are often pronounced as dental, with the tip of the tongue placed behind the upper teeth.

INTERIDIOLECTAL PHONETIC VARIATIONS /⁷inta(:),idiau'Iekt9l fau'netik jVsan'etJsnz/ — variations in the pronunciation of one and the same phoneme, word of sentence in the same phonetic context and the same style of speech by different speakers of the language.

INTERMITTENT CLOSURE /_;Tnta'mitent 'к!эиза/ - this type of clo­sure is formed when the tip of the tongue is rapidly tapping against the teeth­ridge as in the articulation of trilled, or rolled /p/.

INTERPHONEMIC ALTERNATION /.mtefau'niimik /»Its:'net Jan/ -> alternation between different phonemes, which are represented by their differ­ent ailophones, e.g. /as/ alternates with /e/ in man — men.

INTONATION /,tnteu'neif9n/ — a component of the phonetic structure which is viewed in the narrow meaning as pitch variations, or speech melody. It manifests itself in the del imitative function within a sentence and at its end; see PROSODIC FEATURES.

INTONATION GROUP /.mteu'neijen 'amp/ — an actualized sensa group.

INTONEME /'rnbtmfcnt/ — a phonological unit created by two or more

components of intonation, or by a combination of various types of tonemes or accenteraes, e.g. What difficulty? What difficulty/ These two sentences are pro­nounced with two different intonemes.

INTRAIDIOLECTAL PHONETIC VARIATIONS /'intra,idiau'Iektel fau'netik /vsan'eijanz/ — variations In the pronunciation of one and the same speaker, i.e. within one and the same idiolect. They are of two types: free va­riations and those conditioned by different styles of pronunciation — stylistic Variations.

INTRUSIVE SOUNDS /m'trissiv 'saundz/ — alien to the word. For example: /'himpjudant/ instead of /'impjudant/; /'pleijirj/ instead of /'plenrj/; (''dra-msr and 'mjuszik/ instead of /'drcuma and 'mjttzik/.

INVENTORY OF PHONEMES /'mventn av 'feuntmz/ — in the English language the inventory of segmental phonemes consists of 25 consonant and 21 vowel phonemes. In the Russian language there are 36 consonant and 6 vowel phonemes.

IRRELEVANT FEATURES /I'reltveni 'tttfez/ — different articulatory and acoustic features of speech sounds, which do not make them allophones of different phonemes, e.g, partial devoicing of terminal voiced consonants, varia­tion in the positional length of vowels.

JAWBREAKER /'dä^brerka/ — a word, which is difficult to pronounce.

JAWS /d3o;z/ — parts of the mouth, which bear teeth and by means of which the mouth can be opened and closed.

JONES' VOWEL TRAPEZIUM /'d39Unzi2 'vaugl tra'pfczjam/ — Jones* system of vowels based on 8 cardinaljpoints of articulation; see CARDINAL VOWELS.

JUNCTION /'d^rjkjen/ — the joining of two sounds or words.

JUNCTURE /'ДзлпЩэ/ — the place, where two sounds.or words are joined together,

JUNCTURE PHONEME /'ctäArjktfa 'bunfcm/ — the syllabic boundary at the junction of words or morphemes that can be characterized by distinctive difference, e.g. a name — an aim. Open or plus juncture is marked by /+/: a + name, an -f- aim

KINETIC /kai'netik/ — relating to motion, producing motion. KYMOGRAPH /'kaimagra-f/ — the apparatus used to record speech sounds graphically. Kymograms help to ascertain the quality of various sounds

L

LABIAL /'Ieibial/ — relating to the lips.

LABIAL SOUNDS /'leibial ^?saundz/ — articulated by the Hps. For ex­ample: /p, b/.

LABIALIZATION /,Ieibiatai'zeijW — Up rounding.

LABIALIZED VOWELS /'leibialaizd 'vaugla/ — vowels produced with a more or lessJip rounding. For example: /о, у, №,», ■», u/.

LARYNGEAL /,lserin'азЫ, 1д'пп^э1/ - of or pertaining to the larynx.

observe the vocal cords epiglottis, and the glottis. _ о LARYNX /'Ianrjks/ — an organ of the respiratory tract above the wind­pipe. It consists of an elaborate arrangement of cartilage and muscles and con­tains a pair of vocal cords.

LARYNGOSCOPE /U'ringaskaup/ -- laryngeal mirror, which helps to

LATERAL /'lateral/ — having to do with the sides of the tongne. LATERAL SOUNDS /'lastaral 'saundz/ - sounds in the articulation of which the air passages (or passage) are formed at the lateral sides of the tongue. At the same time the contact is made by the tip of the tongue pressed against

LATERAL SOUNDS
ch the air passages (or j
... the same time the con¹.«»..,_{e Ul[},_uc
the teethridge as In /I/ articulation. ' "

LAW OF CONDITIONED ALLOPHONIC SIMILARITY /'la av ken'di-Jand,sels fünik jSimi'lsenti/ — two more or less similar sounds, which are at

the same time more or less different, are allophones of the same phoneme, if their difference is due to non-distinctive factors.

LAW OF GREAT PHONEMIC DISSIMILARITY /'lar. av 'greit fau'nimik jdisimi'lsnti/ — entirely different sounds such as a vowel and a consonant cannot be allophones of the same phoneme.

LAWS OF PHONEMIC AND ALLOPHONIC DISTRIBUTION /'bz sv fau'nfcmik and,aela'fiomk,distn'bju:j3ri/ — 1. if different speech sounds occur in the same phonetic context', they are allophones of different phonemes; 2. if similar speech sounds occur in different positions and never occur in the same phonetic context, they are variants of one and the same phoneme.

LAX VOWELS /'lseks 'vauslz/ — vowels in the articulation of which the muscular tension of the tongue, lips, and the walls of the resonating cavities is not so great as in the articulation of tense vowels. Compare: /i, u, ю/ and /t_f u, o:/.

LENGTH OF THE SOUND /'Ierj9 av 8э 'saund/ — length of the sound; waves in the articulation of a sound.

LENIS /'Itais/ (pi. LENES /'li:ni:z/) — pronounced with weak articula­tion: /b, d, z, 9, v, Ö, 3, 03/.

LENITION /li'mjan/ — gradual weakening in the articulation, LESSEN /'lesn/ — to make less. For example, lessen the length, lotidness or tension of sounds.

LETTERS /'letsz/ — printed or written symbols of an alphabet used in representing speech sounds.

LEVEL TONE /'levl 'tsim/ — tone neutral in its communicative function,. which is used mostly in poetry.

LIAISON /lfc'eizurj/ — in the English language cases of liaison are the "intrusive" /r/ or the pronunciation of In/ in an indefinite article when it is fol­lowed by a vowel: an apple /an 'sepl/.

LIGHT /lait/ — in phonetics this term Is equivalent to clear. LINGUAL /'hrjgwal/ — articulated with the help of the tongue. For example, It! is a lingual sound because it is articulated with the tip of the tongue pressed against the teethridge.

LINGUAPHONE /'hngwsfaun/ — having to do with teaching languages-with the help of phonetics.

LINGUAPHONE CLASS /'lirjgwafaun 'klcus/ — class equipped with mag­netic tape recorders, gramophones and earphones used for listening and repro­ducing foreign texts.

LINGUISTIC FUNCTIONS /hrj'gwistik 'Unkjanz/ - in phonetics they are connected with phonemic, significative properties of sound, syllable, stress, and intonation.

LIP POSITIONS /'lip pa'zijanz/ — different positions of Hps, which change the articulation of sounds and their tamber. The main positions of the lips are: rounded, as in Ы articulation, unrounded, as in hi articulation, protruded, as in /y/ articulation, non-protruded as in /e/ articulation, spread as in /i=/ ar­ticulation, neutral as in /э/ articulation.

* LIPS /lips/ — two muscular folds bordering the mouth; in articulatory phonetics referred to as "upper" and "lower lip".

LIQUID CONSONANTS /'Iikwrd 'ktmssnants/ — some phoneticians use.this term to characterize the sounds /3, r/.

LISP /hsp/ — to pronounce /8/ instead of /s/ and /Ö/ instead of /z/. LITERARY PRONUNCIATION /'htaren pr©,r»Ansi'eiJen/: RP PRO­NUNCIATION (RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION) or PUBLIC SCHOOL PRO­NUNCIATION — the pronunciation of educated people in Southern England. LOCAL DIFFERENCES /'Isukel 'difarsnsiz/ — dialectal differences im the pronunciation of the same sounds or words.

LOGICAL STRESS l'lvdßiksl 'stres/ — the singling out of the word, which seems to be most important in the sentence.

LOGOGRAM /Чюдэдгэет/ — an arbitrary symbol (in shorthand, for in­stance) representing a complete word.

LOGOPAEDIC //bgeWptdik/ - having to do with the correction of speech defects.

LOGOPAEDICS /,kig3(u)'pl:diks/ — a branch of phonetics, which studies speech defects and the ways of correcting them.

LONG VOWELS /'1гц 'vaualz/ — in English they are /I:, се, а, з:, ml.

LOOSE NEXUS /'Ins 'neksas/ — loose connection between a long monoph­thong or a diphthong and a consonant which follows it. For example: /t -j-z/ an the word bees,

LOOSE TRANSITION /'lus tr«en'si3an/ — articulation of two neighbour­ing sounds -when the final stage of the first sound is not affected by the initial stage of the second sound, e.g. /'aisbwg/ compare with the Russian [збор] — «lose transition.

LOSS /Ids/ — in phonetics it is absence of some articulatory work. Loss <of plosion, sound, etc., e.g. act — loss of plosion in /k/.

LOUD /laud/ — producing a powerful stimulus on the ear.

LOUDSPEAKER /'laudspfcka/ — a device that converts electrical impulses into sounds loud enough to be heard some distance away,

LOWER TEETH, LIP, JAW /'1эиэ 'ti:9, 'lip. '(&:/ — all these organs are ■more active and important in the process of articulation than the upper jaw, lip, teeth.

LOW LEVEL TONE /'lau 'levl 'taun/ — characterizes unstressed but prominent syllables of parenthetic groups or long tails.

LOW-NARROW VOWELS /'1эи 'паэгэи 'vaualz/ — these vowels are

LOW PITCH /'1эи 'pitj¹/ — low tone. It is usually used in the narrow range <of tone-pitch.

LOW VOWELS /'1эи 'vaualz/ — vowels pronounced with the low position •of the bulk of the tongue. For example: /as, ъ, ге, л,о.-/./л, к/ belong to low vow­els of narrow variety, /se, a(i, и), си, u/ belong to low vowels of broad variety. /eb, a(i, u)/ are low front vowels, /л, о:, си, W are low back vowels.

. LUNGS /Unz/ — the source of the air stream that makes it possible to produce sounds. The latter also regulate the force of the air pressure and produce ■vibrations in the intensity of speech sounds.

MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDER /mseg'netik 'teip n'tada/ — the appa­ratus that converts sounds into electrical signals and then into variations in ihe magnetization of a wire or tape of magnetic material. A similar system has been devised for operation with a television camera, recording television pic­tures as magnetic information which may be used later to reproduce the images «(videotape).

MEDIA /'mirdjs/ tot. MEDIAE) /'medjls/ see LENIS.

MEDIAL./'mfcdjsl/ — passing through the middle of the air-passage.

MEDIAL SONANTS /Wdjal 'sounants/ — sounds articulated with the air-passage through the middle part of the tongue. For example: /w, r. j/.

MEDIOLINGUAL CONSONANTS /'mi:dJ9(u)hna.wal 'k«nsanants/ — con­
sonants articulated with the help of the middle part of the tongue. To this group
belong English /J/ and Russian /й/,,.

MELODY /'metsdi/ — changes in the voice pitch in the process of speech.

MEMBERS OF A PHONEME /'membaz av a 'feunfera/ - positional and •combinatory allophones belonging to the "family of one and the same sound ■{D, Jones),

MERGING OF STAGES /'ma:d3in av 'steicfeiz/ - coincidence of the last
■stage of the first sound in the articulation of a word with the first stage of the
-second sound. Merging of stages usually takes place when sounds of a different
•nature are joined, for example /I + i + t/ in the word lit.,,,.

METHOD OF MINIMAL PAIRS /'meOad av 'minimal 'psez/ - the dis­covery of as many pairs of words as possible, that differ in one phoneme. It is based on the substitution of one sound for another, commutation.

ISTINCTIVE OPPOSITIONS ZmeGad jUpa'ziJ'anz/ — this method enables to prove whether the phonetic difference is relevant or not.

METHOD OF DISTINCTIVE OPPOSITIONS Z'meGad av dis'tinktiv

'J'/ thi thd b t h hti diffnce

METHODS OF PHONETIC ANALYSIS /'meÖadz av fau'netik a'nssh-
sis/ — different methods used in the stujJy and investigation of different pho­
netic -phenomena. '

METRONOME /'metranaum/ -/a clockwork device with a moving; audible indicator, which can be regulated to different speeds and used to mark-equal periods. It is used in phonetics to teach rhythm.

MICROPHONE /'maikrsfatm/ — an instrument, which amplifies and transmits sounds.

MID /mid/ — neither high nor low position of the bulk of the tongue when, it moves in the vertical direction. In Jones' classification mid corresponds ta hall-close and half-open. Mid vowels are: /e, з:, э, э(и), е(э}/.

MID BACK VOWELS /'mid 'Ьгек 'vauslz/ — the nucleus of the diphthong, /ou/ and the Russian /of.

MID CENTRAL VOWELS /'mid 'sentral 'yaualz/ — Ы and /a/ in'the-terminology given by British phoneticians. Russian authorities define them as-mid, mixed.

MID FRONT VOWELS /'mid 'frjint 'vau₉lz/ - /e/, the first element o£ the diphthong /еэ/ and the Russian /э/.

MID NARROW VOWELS /'mid 'n«rau 'vauslz/ — /e/, Ы and the first element of the diphthongs /эй/ and le.il.

MID WIDE VOWELS /'mid 'waid 'vaualz/ — /э/ and the first element of the diphthong /е(э)/.

MIDDLE PART OF THE TONGUE /'midl 'pcut av бэ 'tAn/ — the centrar part of the dorsum of the tongue which is opposite the hard palate. It lies be­tween the blade and the back of the tongue. This term is widely used in our ter­minology. The middle of the tongue plays an important role in the process of. palatalization. In the terminology given by some foreign phoneticians the term "middle" is used in reference to the border between the predorsal (that is front> and dorsal (that is middle and back) part of the tongue; according to their ter­minology the middle part of the tongue corresponds to the term "front part of the tongue",

MIDDLE PHASE /'midl 'feiz/ —the second phase of articulation, or the hold-

MINIMAL DISTINCTIONS /'minimal disMinkj-gnz/ - the smallest dif­ferences, that help to recognize and differentiate words.

MINIMAL PAIR /'minimal 'pea/ — a pair the distinctive differences between the members of which are based upon one distinctive difference. The pair pill — bill is minimal, because its members are differentiated due to /p — b/ phonemes, their fortis /p/ — lenis 1Ы distinctions.

MISPRONOUNCE /'mispra'nauns/ — to pronounce sounds or words with-, mistakes.

MISTAKES IN PRONUNCIATION /mis'teiks in prs,nAnsr'eiJan/ — dif­ferent deviations from the teaching norm in the pronunciation of a foreign lan­guage. Academician L. V. Shcherba suggested that mistakes should be divided into 1. phonological (altering the meaning of words) and 2, non-phonological, (that do not affect the meaning of words).

MIXED VOWELS — G. P. Torsuyev defines them in the following way: «тело языка приподнято, причем вся спинка языка лежит максимально-плоско». They are /з;, э/.

MODIFICATIONS IN CONTEXT /jmudifi'keifanz in 'ktsntekst/ — sound' changes in context. Positional and combinatory modifications of phonemes in. connected speech,

_t MONOPHTHONG /'тттвГввп/ — a vowel sound in the articulation oi^: which the articulating organs are more or less stable, which results In the sta­tionary nature of the vowel, English monophthongs are /i, e, аэ, си, ъ, <$, u, л,, з:, а/.

MONOPHTHONGIZE /'mtinafe-ongaiz/ — to acquire equal quality. _ MONOSYLLABISM /'muna'silabizm/ — linguistic phenomenon character­ized by monosyllables. Monosyllabism is characteristic of the English language..

MONOSYLLABLE /'imma'silebl/ — a word consisting of one syllable..

MONOTONE /'munatsun/ — equal tone, lacking the necessary variations in the voice pitch.

MONOTONOUS /ma'ntitsnas/ — pronounced with equal tone.

MORA /'more/ (pi. MORAE I'vmti) — the length of one short syllable
■which was considered the unit of length in the antique versification; so the
length of a long syllable was equal to two rooras.....

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