* dialect – a form of language which is spoken only in one area, with words or grammar that are slightly different from other forms of the same language accent Chinese/Yorkshire etc. dialect
These dialects may differ from one another in the following respects: 1) in grammar, 2) in vocabulary, and 3) in pronunciation.
Different types of pronunciation of one and the same language may differ from one another in all the components of its phonetic system.
The inventory of their phonemes may be slightly different, i.e. they may have phonemes not found in other dialects. For instance, the Scottish variant of English has the velar *fricative voiceless phoneme similar to the Russian [x], non-existent in RP and most other types of English pronunciation: of [lɒx] (loch – озеро) – [lɒk] (lock – замок). The same sound [æ] also occurs in some minor local dialects in Great Britain, e.g. the word enough is pronounced [əˈnjux] instead of [ı'nʌf] or [ə'nʌf] occurring in RP and most other types of English pronunciation.
The distribution of those similar sounds which exist in all or several types of pronunciation, may also differ.
A dialectal variation in the position of word accent may be illustrated by the word industry (ˈindustry, in'dustry).
Dialectical differences in intonation have not yet been sufficiently investigated.
Thanks to economic, political and social factors one of the local dialects becomes the literary language of the country, and the pronunciation of the dialect begins to be regarded as uncultured, illiterate, substandard. But within the standard pronunciation of a language there may be variants, too considered equally "correct" or acceptable.
* fricative - a sound, such as /f/ or /z/, made by forcing your breath through a narrow opening between your lips and teeth, or your tongue and teeth
Thus within Russian Standard Pronunciation (RSP) two orthopedic variants are distinguishable: Moscow Pronunciation and St. Petersburg Pronunciation Examples: щука ([шь:yкъ – щьчьукъ]).
A variant of standard pronunciation is used by educated native speakers of the language because it is this type of pronunciation which they learn, mainly at schools and colleges.
A language which is the mother tongue of more than one notion, also has national variants, or types, of pronunciation. One of such languages is English. As a result of the colonial expansion of British Empire, the English language spread from the British Isles to all the continents of the earth, and the colonies and dominions in the erstwhile British Empire gained their independence and attained nationhood, English became the national language of several countries – the USA, Australia, New Zealand, – while in Canada and the Republic of South Africa it is the mother tongue of the greater part of the population (the languages of the remaining part being French in Canada and Africans with aboriginal *vernaculars in the Republic of South Africa).
+All the national types of English pronunciation have many features in common because they are of common origin. At the same time, they have a number of differences due to the new conditions of their development after separation from British English and to the degree of their connection with British English after that separation. There may be distinguished the following types of cultivated English – large regional types, as distinct from local dialects. In the British Isles there are three such types: 1) Southern English Pronunciation, 2) Northern English Pronunciation, 3) Standard Scottish Pronunciation.
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