Regional Variation of English Pronunciation

Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

English Department

Regional Variation of English Pronunciation

Course paper presented by Halina Ihnatiuk a forth-year studen of the
English department

Supervised by S.R. Avramenko an associate professor of the English department

Lviv-2011
Table of Contents
Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3
Chapter 1. English Spelling. The Distinction between Phoneme and Alophone-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5
Chapter 2. The Development of the Language in the Process of the Development of the Country --------------------------------------------------------------------10 2.1. The Speech Areas of the United States of America -----------------------14
Chapter 3. Regional Variation of the Pronunciation in the USA ------------------------19
Conclusion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25
Summary----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28
References -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30

Introduction
The objective of the paper is to examine the preliminary results of different variants of American pronunciation in various regions.
As we know there are two major types of English generally accepted around the world. They are British English and American English. The first type of the language is the form of English used in the United Kingdom. The second one – in the United States. Within these two variants of English we also distinguish different dialects and variations of some peculiar words and the way we pronounce them.
It is the purpose of the present investigation to study how we

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