Белорусский государственный

Primary stress
– the strongest stress compared with the other stresses in a word. 
Principal allophones
– allophones which do not undergo any significant changes in the 
chain of speech. 
Proclitic
– unstressed words or syllables which refer to the following stressed word or 
syllable; a monosyllabic word or particle with no accent of his own, which is pronounced with the 
following pre-tonic (having secondary stress) or accented syllable as one phonetic unit. 
Progressive assimilation
– the process when the first of the two neighbouring sounds 
influences the second and makes it similar to itself. For example, the pronunciation of the suffix 
-ed
of regular verbs is based on progressive voicing and devoicing: it is pronounced /t/ after voiceless 
consonants, /d/ after vowels and voiced consonants, /ɪd/ after /t/, /d/: 
dropped
/drɒpt/, 
remained
/rɪˈmeɪnd/, 
extended
/ɪksˈtendɪd/.
Prominence – 
singling out acoustically, which produces the effect of greater loudness; the 
extent to which a sound stands out from others because of its sonority, length, stress, and pitch. 
Prosodic norm
– there is a prosodic norm in every language which comprises well-
established prosodic patterns, used in educated speech, and their stylistic variants, current in 
particular styles of pronunciation. 
Prosody
– a complex unity formed by significant variations of pitch, tempo, loudness and 
timbre; non-segmental phenomena regarded as the modifications of fundamental frequency (the 
frequency of the vibrations of the vocal cords over their whole length), intensity and duration at the 
level of their acoustic properties. The notion of prosody is broader than the notion of intonation, 
whereas prosody of the utterance and intonation are equivalent notions. Prosody and intonation are 
characterized by such distinct qualities as stress and pitch prominence at the level of perception.