Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Aug 2023)

MELODY FACTOR TO INDICATE EMOTIONALLY CHARGED PHRASES IN TYPOLOGICALLY UNRELATED LANGUAGES

  • Ivanova I.G.,
  • Yegoshina R.A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2023.44.23
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44, no. 8

Abstract

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The study of common and different intonation characteristics in different languages ​​in the framework of the study of their speech impact on the interlocutor is one of the urgent problems in modern linguistics. From this point of view, emotionally charged speech and its prosodic parameters in various languages, including those of different structures, are of particular interest.A comparative analysis of the phonetic design of emotionally charged phrases of the French and Mari languages ​​made it possible to identify specific and common features, despite the difference in structure of these languages ​​in their intonation component. An analysis of emotionally charged declarative expressions in French and Mari revealed some discrepancies in the intonation design of expressions due to different actual division of the sentence. In emotionally charged exclamatory utterances, differences are noted in the ways of highlighting the core of what is being communicated. Analysis of interrogative sentences with direct word order in both languages ​​showed a similarity in the movement of the main tone, which rises sharply in the final part of the phrase. The results of the study confirmed that the intonation design of speech in different-structured languages, with all the existing differences, has a fairly large number of similar features, such as the direction of movement of the main tone and the method of actual division of the sentence.

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