The Round Table “Current Trends in Phonetic Studies” took place on 26–27 April 2018 at the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of French, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. A collection of abstracts reflecting contemporary directions in phonetic research was published following the event.
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.
