The theme: The pronunciation types of English in the USA. The pronunciation of English in other English-speaking countries THE PRONUNCIATION TYPES OF ENGLISH The Southern type of American pronunciation The Western type of American English THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH IN OTHER COUNTRIES The Canadian type of pronunciation The Australian Type of pronunciation The New Zealand English Pronunciation The South African Pronunciation The so-called «broad» and «narrow» forms of transcription are usually often used in description of RP. But in GA there are too many transcription forms suggested by various linguists. There are differencies in word accentuation between RP and GA too. Usually British linguists distinguish three degrees (primary, secondary and weak) degrees of word stress, while American authors distinguish four (primary, secondary, tertiary and weak) or even five (including the fourthiary) degrees of word stress. These degrees also have different notations in books. One which H. A. Gleason indicated is /Л' v/ symbols in GA. From these / / symbols are used to indicate primary and secondary degrees of stress in RP.