Белорусский государственный

Plosion
– short burst of noise produced by the escape of compressed air when the closure of 
a plosive consonant is released 
Plosives
– consonants produced when the air stream is completely stopped for a short time, 
also 
stops
. Plosive consonants are /p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, ŋ/. 
Post-alveolar
– the place of articulation of consonants in which the tongue makes contact 
with the front part of the palate, just behind the alveolar area; sounds articulated with the tip or the 
blade of the tongue against the back part of the teeth ridge. 
Power mechanism
– a group of speech organs which supplies energy for sound production, 
it includes lungs, diaphragm, windpipe, bronchi. 

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Practical Phonetics (applied phonetics)
– all the practical applications of phonetics; a 
branch of phonetics which teaches how to pronounce sounds correctly and what intonation to use to 
convey this or that meaning or emotion. It is called 
Normative Phonetics
because it teaches the 
“norm” of English pronunciation. 
Pragmalinguistics
– a branch of linguistics that studies what linguistic means and ways of 
influence on a hearer to choose in order to bring about certain effects in the process of 
communication. 
Pragmaphonetics
– a branch of Pragmalinguistics whose domain is to analyse the 
functioning and speech effects of the sound system of a language. 
Pragmatic function of intonation
– it consists in the use of intonation with specific 
purpose. In other words, when used in discourse, intonation serves to actualize the speaker’s 
pragmatic aim. 
Prehead
– the unstressed syllables which precede the first stressed syllable of the head. The 
prehead is normally pronounced on the low or mid pitch level. If it is pronounced on a pitch 
somewhat higher than the normal pitch (High Irregular Prehead) or somewhat low (Low Irregular 
Prehead) the utterance acquires emphasis and emotional connotations.