PHONETIC REALIZATION OF INTONATIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS №1 IN REFERENCE PRONUNCIATION IN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article focuses phonetic realization of intonational construction (IC) №1 in Russian in affirmative sentences with analyzing the fundamental frequency on different parts of utterance and timing of the falling accent by the experimental phonetic methods. During the experiment, by using a program Praat 51 sentences with pre-centers of IC were analyzed, which were selected from audio accessories of modern works on teaching Russian as a foreign language. Then were received intonograms of related records and following parameters were measured: the initial tone in syntagma, the tone at the beginning and the end of intonational fall, interval of intonational fall, time from the beginning of intonational fall to the beginning of the stressed vowel of the accented word. The obtained data show that in 96% of all studied cases the fall of tone in IC №1 started before the beginning of the stressed vowel of the accented word (center of the IC), compared with the beginning of intonational fall the end of fall nearer to the beginning of the stressed vowel of the accented word and falling interval is related to speaker’s pitch frequency.