Phonetic features of English in Ireland

The urgency of the problem. One of the major contemporary issues of linguistics is the problem of development of the language, its causes and forms, as well as the symbiosis of language in terms of forced intercourse, which resulted in the formation of other languages ​​with a simplified grammar, phonetics and spelling, called – Standard Scottish English (SSE).
Perspective of the study. The phenomenon of language SSE to be active in the study of philology and psychology, only recently, as previously followed a secured status of "second-class languages. In spite of a sufficient number of papers on the subject, the status of SSE and its place in the world's languages ​​remain quite uncertain, and the matter remains little developed in both theoretical and practical terms.

Introduction………………………………………………………………………..3

CHAPTER 1. History of Standard Scottish English
1.1. The Relationship of Scots to Other Germanic Languages……………………5
1.2. Dialectal features and typology of contemporary English……………………..8

Chapter 2. PHONOLOGY of Scottish English
2.1. Segmental Features 11
2.1.1. Vowels 12
2.1.2. Consonants 19
2.2. Prosodic Features
2.2.1. Pitch, Intonation 21
2.2.2. Rhythm 22
2.3. Paralinguistic Features 22

Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………24

List of literature…………………………………………………………………...26