Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University326710.18287/2542-0445-2012-18-8/1-135-139UnknownCONTRAST AND INTONATION MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSIONMakarovaE. N.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097the Dept. of Business Foreign Language, Ural State University of Economics, Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation.01082012188/11351390802201708022017Copyright © 2012, Makarova E.N.2012<p>The article reports on the results of experimental research of contrast accent in the speech of American, Russian and Mexican speakers of English with special emphasis on nucleus realization on the contrastive element. On the basis of experimental data the characteristic features of contrastive accent in Spanish are revealed. Examples of interfering native language influence in the English speech of the Mexicans are described, as well as cases of positive linguistic transfer in the English speech of Russians.</p>contrastive accentnucleuscross language interferencepositive transferударение контрастаинтонационный центрмежъязыковая интерференцияположительный перенос