INTONATIONAL MELODIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WELSH PRONOUNCING TYPE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the experimental investigation of melodic characteristics of Welsh pronouncing type. Based on the perceptive and acoustic types of analysis the investigation allowed to make a prosodic portrait of the analysed regional type of pronunciation, which includes the following characteristics: - prevailing of emotionally coloured heads such as rising, wavy, sliding; - frequency of rising falling and falling terminal tones; - wide range of frequency, realized in high upper register. The results of the investigation allow to state that British national standard of pronunciation (RP) has a certain influence on Welsh accent which is revealed in prevailing of Falling terminal tone and high frequency range.

Keywords

• мелодійні характеристики
• уельський тип вимови
• спадний
• термінальний тон
• частотний діапазон
• висхідно-спадний