Sredi razrabatyvaemykh v nastoyashchee vremya problem obshchey teorii intonatsii issledovanie pozitsii intonatsionnogo tsentra frazy i faktorov, eye opredelyayushchikh, zanimaet vazhnoe mesto. Yavlyayas" yazykovoy universaliey, etot uchastok intonatsionnoy gruppy imeet konkretno-spetsificheskie kharakteristiki. Russkiy i angliyskiy yazyki, buduchi yazykami raznoy tipologii, predstavlyayut dlya sopostavitel"nogo izucheniya s etoy tochki zreniya bol"shoy interes. Na fone dopustimoy variantnosti v rabote rassmatrivayutsya neorfoepicheskie (s tochki zreniya nositeley angliyskogo yazyka) varianty pozitsii intonatsionnogo tsentra v angliyskoy rechi russkikh. Sopostavitel"nyy analiz podtverzhdaet, chto nevernyy vybor intonatsionnogo tsentra v angliyskoy fraze russkimi uchashchimisya mozhet byt" obuslovlen kak interferiruyushchim vliyaniem rodnogo yazyka, tak i yazykovoy nekompetentnost"yu. Rezul"taty provedyennogo issledovaniya mogut sluzhit" osnovoy dlya poiskov putey preodoleniya russkogo aktsenta v angliyskoy rechi russkikh. Rabota predstavlyaet interes dlya studentov filologicheskikh fakul"tetov, prepodavateley angliyskogo yazyka i shirokogo kruga chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya problemami ovladeniya angliyskoy intonatsiey.