English Syllabics as Part of the British-American Voiceworks

Abstract

The article examines English voiceworks and syllable-forming opportunities from functional-communicative perspective with special reference to the role of the syllable in encoding and decoding of speech.
The observations made in the article acquire special significance in the context of the expansion of the “global English” phonetic environment.
The analysis of the factual material reveals the role of the British-American syllable stereotypes in the interpretation of literary communication.