Acoustic Structure and Phonological Status of Vowel Phonemes of German Island Dialects of Villages of Sozimsky and Chernigovsky, Kirov Region

Abstract

The article deals with the study of the phonological system of vowels in the German island dialects of the Kirov region, as well as the identification of common constitutive elements (phonemes) and the peculiarities of their functioning. The belonging of variants of one phoneme was determined by the authors not only with the help of distributive analysis, but also with their general acoustic properties. The results of the analysis of the phonological vowel system and its implementation in the German island dialects are presented. The general constitutive acoustic parameters of sound types and the peculiarities of their functioning have been revealed. The relevance of the presented study is due to the fact that the problem of establishing the phonological status of vocal segments is solved, in contrast to traditional approaches, based not on articulatory, but on acoustic characteristics in combination with perceptual analysis, which makes it possible to determine the phonological status of variants of speech sounds, including in weak positions. The author's technique of computer analysis of speech flow, its perceptual assessment and solution based on the acoustic structure of the functional significance of variants of phonemic implementations is presented.

Keywords

• german insular dialects
• phonological vowel system
• acoustic analysis of speech