Of the republic of uzbekistan the uzbek state university of world languages english language faculty III

* diphthong – a vowel sound made by pronouncing two vowels quickly one after the other. For example, the vowel sound in “main” is a diphthong

CHAPTER II


The Eastern type and The Southern type of American pronunciation


2.1 The Eastern type
The Eastern type is spoken along the east coast of New England and largely in New York City. [This type of American pronunciation bears a close resemblance to the southern English type], which is explained by the fact that the states of New England were in closer contact with Britain during the colonization of America and reflected the changes which had taken place in the pronunciation of London English by the end of the eighteenth century.

+There are, however, some slight differences between the Eastern American type and RP. One of these is the use of a more advanced allophone of the [ɑ:] phoneme than in RP: a vowel sound intermediate between [æ] and [ɑ:] and similar to the nucleus of the RP diphthong [au], e.g. [a:sk] (ask), [da:ns] (dance), [la:f] (laugh).

2.2 The Southern type 
The Southern type of American pronunciation is used in the south and south-east of the United States. Its most striking distinctive feature is the so-called Southern drawl, which is a specific way of pronouncing vowels consisting in the diphthongization and even triphthonogization of some simple vowels and monophthonggization of some diphthongs at the expense of prolonging ("drawing") their nuclei and dropping the glides. Thus that may be pronounced [ðæiət], this – [ðijəs], cute – [kjuət], yes – [jeiəs], fine – [fɑ:n], high – [hɑ:].
Southern American pronunciation has some features in common with RP: the dropping of [r] after [ɜ:] and [ə], the use of clear [l] before a vowel, and some others.
The most widespread type of educated American speech is however, neither the Eastern, nor the Southern type, it is the type variously named Western, Midwestern, Central Western or General American (GA). It is not only the most widespread type, but also, like RP in Great Britain the least regional in character.
The closer resemblance between GA and modern Northern British pronunciation should not be interpreted as indicating that American English is a dialect of that (or any other) type of British English. The close resemblance between the two types of English pronunciation rather points to the fact that both of them are parallel developments from, or descendants of, earlier standard London English.
Since RP and GA are the most widely used types of pronunciation, the learners of English should know the principal differences between them.
Within the vocalic system articulatory differences are the following:

[u]

It is almost the same in GA and RP but in GA it has less lip rounding.
[ɔ:]
In the pronunciation of this vowel the lips are less rounded in GA than in RP. It is transcribed in GA by the symbols [oh] or [oH]: