ON THE QUESTION OF THE ETIOLOGY OF ALTERNATING SOUNDS

Abstract

In the flow of speech sounds undergo various changes under the influence of various factors. Therefore, it is relevant to identify the etiology of the alternation of speech sounds in the speech stream. The study shows that the alternation of sounds in the speech stream can be of different etiologies. According to their etiology, sound alternations are primarily divided into phonetic ones, due to the actual phonetic laws in force at the present stage of language functioning. I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay calls such sound alternations neophonetic. On the other hand, there are alternations of sounds caused by irrelevant phonetic laws that do not apply at the current stage of language functioning. Such alternations are called poleophonetic by I.A. Baudouin de Courtenay. Non-phonetic, morphological alternations, caused not by phonetic, but by grammatical reasons, have a special etiology. Irrelevant (paleophonetic) alternations are not a consequence of living phonetic laws. The establishment of phonetic laws, the etiology of the alternation of sounds allows you to clearly imagine the nature of the sound changes that occur in the flow of speech.