INTRODUCTION 3
1 PHONETICS AS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS 5
1.1 General notion about phonetics 5
1.2 Aspects and units of phonetics 5
2 ARTICULATORY PHONETICS AS A BRANCH OF PHONETICS 9
2.1 General notion about articulatory phonetics 9
2.2 Methods of investigation used in articulatory phonetics 17
2.3 Articulatory settings in English and Russian: comparison and contrast. Problems of foreign language acquisition. 18
CONCLUSION 22
LIST OF USED LITERATURE 23