POSITIONAL EXCHANGE OF VOICED/VOICELESS CONSONANTS IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING TURKS TO RUSSIAN PRONUNCIATION

Abstract

Recently, in Turkey interest in learning Russian language has been growing, and the number of Turkish students who is learning Russian language is increasing. However, there is very little research on the analysis of the Turkish phonetic accent in Russian speech and the teaching Turks the Russian pronunciation. In order to create a practical course of Russian phonetics for a certain contingent of students, it is essential to find out in which areas most clearly appears the interference of native phonetic system on the studied language. The purpose of the paper is analyzing Turkish accent in the area of pronouncing Russian voiced and voiceless consonants. The main problem in this area for Turkish students is adapting positional regularities in phonetic system of Russian language. Paper mentions about the main reasons of the errors of Russian speaking Turkish students, which are reasoned by the differences in phonetics systems of these two “contacting” languages, in the area of functioning voiced and voiceless consonants. The research results are capable of improving efficiency of teaching Turkish students the Russian pronunciation and also to present the means of eliminating Turkish accent in Russian speech.