THE PERCEPTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF REDUCED UNSTRESSED ENGLISH VOWELS
Androsova Svetlana Viktorovna, Guseva Svetlana Ivanovna, Morozova Ol'ga Nikolaevna
Amur State University
Abstract. The article considers the perception of reduced vowels in the Canadian and Australian English by the Americans. The research confirmed the hypothesis that the Canadian reduced vowels are perceived by the Americans more successfully because of the greater proximity of vocalic systems of the Canadian and American English compared with the Australian variant.
Key words and phrases: полицентризм английского языка, национальные варианты английского языка, произносительный стандарт языка, спонтанная речь, гласные, коартикуляция, безударность, акустические и перцептивные характеристики сегментных единиц, фонологическая и перцептивная базы носителя языка, polycentricity of the English language, national variants of the English language, pronunciation standard of language, spontaneous speech, vowels, coarticulation, unstressed character, acoustic and perceptual characteristics of segmental units, phonological and perceptual frameworks of native speaker
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