Evolution of D. Jones’s Phonological Theory in the Modern English Phonology

Abstract

The paper aims to reveal continuity of D. Jones’s phonological theory provisions in development of theoretical base of the modern English phonetics. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the researchers for the first time provide a comprehensive analysis of D. Jones’s phonological views which were further developed in the British phonologists’ works. The research findings are as follows: the authors identify the core principles of the phonetic system functioning and development discovered by D. Jones and clarified in his followers’ works.

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• Received: February 3, 2021.
• Published: April 9, 2021.

Keywords

• фонологическая концепция Д. Джоунза
• система основных гласных
• просодические явления тона и интонации
• аллофоническая транскрипция
• фонематическая транскрипция
• D. Jones’s phonological conception
• cardinal vowels system
• prosodic phenomena of tone and intonation
• allophonic transcription
• phonemic transcription

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