II.6. PHONOLOGICAL TRENDS IN THE USA There are several phonological trends in the USA. The head
o f the American descriptive linguistics L.Bloomfield was one of
the first phonologists whose ideas were very fruitful in the further
development o f phonological theories in USA. Another well-
1 J.R.Firth. Id., p. 258. 2 R.H. Robins. Aspects of prosodic analysis. In «Phonological Theory...», p. 267. 3 J. Lyons. Phonemic and non-phonemic phonology: some typological reflections. In «Phonological Theory...», p. 275-281. 4 A.C.Gimson. An introduction to the pronunciation of English. L., 1962.
known American linguist E.Sapir also formulated his own ap
proach to phonemic solutions. Below we give a short review of
phonological trends in the USA.