Белорусский государственный

Stylistic modifications
– sound changes which happen under the influence of extra-
linguistic factors. 
Subsidiary allophones
– see 
secondary allophones
. 
Suprasegmental features
– phonetic features such as stress, length, tone, and intonation, 
which are usually a property of stretches of speech longer than the individual segment. 
Supraphaphrasal unity
– a totality of intonation groups or utterances, united by the general 
subtopic and common intonation key. 
Suprasegmental Phonetics
– a division of phonetics whose domain is larger units of 
connected speech: syllables, words, phrases and texts. 
Syllable
– a sound sequence, consisting of a centre which has little or no obstruction to 
airflow and which sounds comparatively loud; before and after this centre there will be greater 
obstruction to airflow and less loud sound. A syllable is a phonological unit consisting of a vowel 
and any consonants which form its beginning or end. Syllables seem to be necessary units in the 
mental organization and production of utterances. 
Syllable pattern – 
the type of syllable most common for language. English is characterized 
by (C)VC syllable pattern and Russian by CV pattern. 
Syllable-timed languages
– in these languages all syllables, whether stressed or unstressed, 
tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed will be shorter or longer 
depending on the number of unstressed syllables separating them. 
Syntagm
– a group of words which is semantically and syntactically complete. 
Systematic phonetic transcription
– a transcription that shows all the phonetic details that 
are part of the language and can be stated in terms of phonological rules. Also called “narrow” 
transcription as opposed to “broad”. See