1. ACCENT MODIFICATION OF POLYSYLLABIC WORDS IN A PHRASE Marina ---------- Moscow 2012 www.officetutor.ruwww.officetutor.ru – подготовка речи и презентации на английском языке для защиты диплома.

2. 1) The importance of analyzing a word accent. 2) The tendency of word accent modification in English. 3) Relevant and important practical applications (next slide). Relevance of the chosen subject In this work the problem of accent modifications of English polysyllabic words in a phrase in British English is discussed. One cannot fully describe English intonation without analyzing a word accent. Prosodic components (pitch, loudness, tempo) and speech accent work interdependently. But English has a tendency to modify word accent in a phrase under the influence of the rhythm of the sentence. That makes the problem of studying accent modifications in English very important.

3. 1) Avoiding misunderstandings in human communication. 2) Improving the educational process. Practical applications The importance of phonetics is often underestimated while studying foreign languages. Very few people think of intonation and such an important part of it as stress or accent. This is a great mistake. People use tone and stress to signal emotions, questioning, and parts of the sentence among many other things. It's important to recognize the meaning behind the tones, and to be able to use them so that there are no misunderstandings between the speaker and the listener. The present work can be of great practical importance as the results obtained can be used in the process of teaching the English phonetics and in the process of teaching English teachers in general. www.officetutor.ruwww.officetutor.ru – подготовка речи и презентации на английском языке для защиты диплома.

4. To review the nature and types of accent modification in connected speech. Tasks To review the notion of the word accent presented in the works of British, American and Russian phoneticians. To describe the main specific features of English word accent especially the word accent of polysyllabic words. To analyze accent modifications of English polysyllabic words in a phrase in British English. Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 4 The aim of this work is to review the phenomenon of accent modifications of English polysyllabic words in a phrase in the present-day British English. The following tasks will be solved in the process of this work.

5. The structure of the paper INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 – THEORETICAL BACKGROUND CHAPTER 2 – PRACTICAL PART CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY 5 The paper consists of five parts. In the Introduction the aim and tasks of the work are explained. The first chapter is devoted to the description of English word accent, it gives the main facts of the present-day English polysyllabic word accent. It also describes the nature and types of accent modifications of words in connected speech. The second chapter describes the results of the practical analysis of accent modifications of polysyllabic words in a phrase in British English. The Conclusion presents the main results of the research and summarizes the findings. The Bibliography presents the list of works reviewed and referred to in this paper.