Articulatory peculiarities of vowels in the English and Ukrainian languages

Phonological opposition is the distinction of at least two elements having a common feature and a differentiating one. Within the systems of vowels there are such allom. opp-ns: tense and lax vowels (acc.to the degree of muscular tension of articulatory organs), abrupted-non-abrupted Vs(acc.to the force of artic-n at the end of the V), long-short Vs(are opp-ed only in E); opp-ns acc.to the stability of artic-n: mon-s ::diphth – bid-beard /i-iǝ/; diph-s :: diphth – bay-boy. Group opp-s acc.to the horizontal movement of the tongue (classes are opp-ed, such opp-s are of isom.nature in both lang-s): front-back:  [i:-u:] beat-boot [as-a:] cat-cart, [i-y] 6iK-6yK [i-a] zpiM-zpaM [i-o] cim-com [h-v] Mup-jviyp [h-o] cuh-coh [n-a] jiUHb-naHb. front-retracted-back-advanced: [i-v] kick-cook; front-central[e-3:] bed-bird, central-back[a-o:] tuck-talk, back[a:-o] heart-hot. Group opp acc to the vertical mov of the tongue at the same posotions heights close/high[i:-i] feel-fill [u:-u] pool-pull mid[3:-a]   for eward-forward open/low[o:-o] port-pot. In U There    are    no such oppositions. Group opp.acc to the vertical mov of the tongue at diffr.position heights: close narrow- open broad: seed-sad, close narrow – mid narrow neat-net. In U close-open: /i-e/лід -ледь , /y-a/тук-так, etc

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Summarizing its worth saying that phonologically relevant articulatory features should attract attention of a future teacher of English because they form the basis of the pronunciation system of the language. If we want to speak a foreign language in a correct way it is natural we should pay more perceptible than before a lenis voiced consonant or sonorant. All long vowels are free.