Types of English pronunciation

/ɔ:/ » sort /sɔ:t/

/u/ » put /put/

/u:/ » boot /bu:t/

/ʌ/ » but /bʌt/

/ɛ/ » bird /bɛ:d/

/ə/ » alone /ə`loun/
The following diphthongs exit in GAu:

/ɛI/ as in the word day

/ou/ » so

/aI/ » try

/ʌu/ » down

/ɔ I/ » boy

/Ia/ » clear

/ɛə/ » dare

/uə/ » tour (tuə)
GAu /I/ is a diphthongized vowel as /u/ or diphthong /aI/, /I/ is more close and somewhat prolonged especially in a stressed position. GAu uses diphthong /I/ for /^.I/ instead of /ɛI/: say /sI/ made /m^.Id/. It often alternates between /ɛI~I~æI/ in Australian speech. GAu diphthong /aI/ sounds like /ʌɛ/, /ɔI/, /ɔ^.I/: time /taIm/, /tɔIm/etc. GAu /A/ is used instead of RP /a:/: father /fðə/. The opposition /-A/ is neutralized in GAu: cut - cart, much - march sound identical, i.e. become homophones.

In principal the phonetic inventory of GAu does not differ much from RP but the distribution of phonemes is different in both literary types. There are also slight differences in word accentuation and intonation between GAu and RP. But in many cases GAu is much closer to the RP pronunciation than that of GA.

III. Conclusion

As we have already above mentioned, there is wide range of pronunciation of any language, the English language as well. The pronunciation of almost every locality in the British Isles has peculiar features that distinguish it from other varieties of English pronunciation. Moreover, pronunciation is socially influenced, i.e. it is influenced by education and upbringing. At the same time all these varieties have much more in common that what differentiates them. They are varieties of one and the same language, the English language.

Any language may have its literary or orthoepic norm, regional types and dialects. Dealing with the English and the types of English pronunciation we mean the use of English all over the world where the English language is accepted as the state language. English is spoken not only in the British Isles which has its Northern, Scottish and Irish type of pronunciations, in the United States of America, Australia, Canada and many other countries of the world.

Though those national languages have distinctive features of their own which differentiate them from British English and from each other, they have much more in common. That is why they are considered to be variants of the same language, the English language.

American English which is a variant of the English language, has developed its own peculiarities in vocabulary, grammatical structure and pronunciation. There are three main types of AE pronunciation, the Eastern, the Southern, and the General American type.

The development of American English on the American continent has a comparatively short history. The conditions under which it developed were peculiar and quite unlike those under which the English language developed in Great Britain.

English is one of the national official languages together with French n Canada. Canadian English (CaE) has common phonetic features both with RP and GA. English, which is spoken in Ontario region, is more similar to GA than in other parts of Canada as this region is situated very close to the USA

The development of the English language in Australia has its own history, which is a comparatively short one: less than two centuries (which is even less than the history of American English, comprising three and a half centuries).

The chief reasons for the development of Australian speech are linguistic and historical, though, as the majority of Australian linguists state, it is difficult to trace them very satisfactorily.

The main pronunciation similarities and differences between the types of English pronunciation can be observed in phonemic system, accentual structure, and intonation structure.

Thus, the study of the types of English pronunciation can stated as one of the most interesting and important problems of modern English phonetics.