PROSODIC MARKERS OF THE SPEAKER'S SOCIAL STATUS
Journal: Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology
Year: 2020

Diversity of forms and kinds of speech communication and variability of national and regional accents in contemporary English define the necessity of phonetic variation study of oral speech and clearing up its sources. The speaker's accent indicates his social status (social class, education, religious, ethnic, professional affiliation). The present article is dedicated to the study of the speaker's social status prosodic markers. Complex prosodic investigation of speech behavior of the Australi