The proceedings of the IV International Round Table “Current Trends in Phonetic Studies” have been published.
Publication details: “Сучасні тенденції фонетичних дослідженнь”: proceedings of the IV International Round Table, Kyiv, 23 April 2020. Kyiv: Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Politekhnika Publishing House, 2020. 140 pages.
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 round-table proceedings will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students.