Белорусский государственный

Phonosemantics
– a branch of psycholinguistics that studies the relations between the 
sound structure of a word and its meaning. 
Phonostylistics
– a branch of phonetics that studies the way phonetic means of the language 
function in various oral realizations of the language. It is concerned with the identification of the 
style-forming means, i.e. the phonetic features that enable the native speaker to distinguish 
intuitively between different styles of pronunciation. 
Phonotactics
– the study of the possible phoneme combinations of a language. 
“Physical” view of the phoneme
– it regards the phoneme as a “family” of related sounds 
satisfying certain conditions: 1) The various members of the “family” must show phonetic 
similarity to one another, in other words be related in character. 2) No member of the “family” may 
occur in the same phonetic context as any other. 
Physiological Phonetics
– see 
Articulatory Phonetics
. 
Pitch
– the auditory characteristic of a sound, it corresponds to the fundamental frequency 
(the rate of vibrations of the vocal cords). The pitch component of intonation, or speech melody, is 
commonly referred to as variations in the height of the voice during speech, and is generally 
described in terms of pitch-changes and levels. 
Pitch-accent
– a distinctive pitch level or pitch movement which makes a syllable seem 
strongly stressed. 
Pitch level
– a particular height of pitch. 
Pitch range
– the interval between two pitch levels or two differently pitched syllables or 
parts of a syllable. According to circumstances the speaker changes his/her voice range. It may be 
widened or narrowed to express emphasis or the speaker’s attitudes and emotions. 
Place of articulation
– part of the standard way of classifying consonants, this refers to the 
place in the vocal tract where the air stream is obstructed. According to this principle the English 
consonants are classed into: 1) labial; 2) lingual; 3) glottal.