The fifth, anniversary meeting of the Round Table “Current Trends in Phonetic Studies” took place on 22 April 2021. Quarantine restrictions did not affect the quality of the event: its online format enabled many researchers from Ukraine, Lithuania and Italy to participate.
The participants were welcomed by the organizers: Alla Kalyta, Doctor of Philological Sciences, acting head of the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of French at the Faculty of Linguistics, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, and head of the Kyiv Phonetic School; Iryna Poliuk, Associate Professor in the same department and conference co-chair; and Larysa Taranenko, Doctor of Philological Sciences and Professor in the department.
Larysa Taranenko thanked the leading and early-career researchers in theoretical, experimental and applied linguistics, particularly phonetics, for intellectually stimulating, high-quality presentations and expressed the hope of meeting again in 2022.
The plenary session included the following presentations:
1. Olha Ilchenko, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor and head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Research and Educational Center for Foreign Languages of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: “Octoliteraphillia and h-dropping: a study in English phonosemantics”.
2. Anastasiia Rybak, founder and CEO of SARGOI International Community, director of studies and certified foreign-language teacher trainer, with TKT, CELTA, PMD Marketing and FTBE qualifications: “Digital transformation: 7 steps to effective pronunciation teaching online”.
3. Alla Kalyta, Doctor of Philological Sciences, acting head of the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of French at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and head of the Kyiv Phonetic School: “Methodology of Emotional-and-Pragmatic Potential Visualization of Individual’s Thinking-and-Speaking Processes”.
4. Jolita Urbanavičienė, Doctor of Humanities, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania: “Instrumental Comparative Studies of Sonorants in the Baltic Languages: Classification and Research Methodology”.
5. Yelyzaveta Sniehirova, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Research and Educational Center for Foreign Languages of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: “Little virtues of great value in digital era”.
6. Larysa Taranenko, Doctor of Philological Sciences and Professor in the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of French at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: “Prosodic Expression of the English Myth Energetic Potential”.
7. Claudio Barna, Department of International Studies, University of Milan, Italy: “Romain Gary between East and West”.
8. Mariia Boichenko, postgraduate student, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: “Perspectives of Multidimensional Lingual Energetic Research of Charismatic Speech”.
9. Olha Isniuk, lecturer in the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of English at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute: “Actualization of the emotional-and-pragmatic potential of spoken performances of W. Shakespeare’s sonnets”.
10. Iryna Andrushchenko, Candidate of Philological Sciences and Associate Professor in the Professor O. M. Morokhovsky Department of English Philology, Translation and Philosophy of Language at Kyiv National Linguistic University: “Dynamic characteristics of the public speech of pedantically accentuated personalities”.
