The III Round Table “Current Trends in Phonetic Studies” took place at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on 19 April 2019. Specialists in contemporary phonetics, linguistic approaches to discourse and methods of teaching foreign-language phonetics participated.
Among the participants were leading researchers of the Kyiv Phonetic School, Doctors of Philological Sciences and Professors A. A. Kalyta, O. R. Valihura and L. I. Taranenko, together with invited international speakers Professor O. B. Karnevska (Belarus), Claudio Barna (Italy), and Amanda Drye and Duncan Drye (United Kingdom).
A collection of the proceedings was published following the round table.
The contributions address the sound structure of language and speech; cognitive, cultural, pragmatic and energetic approaches to the phonetic study of discourse; phonosemantic and phonostylistic features of texts across genres; the effects of emotional state on speech prosody; speaker identification through phonetic characteristics; constancy and variation in sociophonetic parameters; paralinguistic features of emotional speech; contrastive studies of Ukrainian and foreign-language phonetic systems; and methods of teaching foreign-language phonetics.
The materials will be useful to researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students.
