Title: Experimental Phonetics in Applied Linguistic Research
Abstract:The formation of experimental phonetics was accompanied by an interest to the physical nature of speech sounds.The experimental methodology makes it possible to detail the characteristics of sound for...The formation of experimental phonetics was accompanied by an interest to the physical nature of speech sounds.The experimental methodology makes it possible to detail the characteristics of sound formation mechanisms.The foundations of experimental phonetics were first laid at Kazan University at the end of the 19th century.Even then, the phonetic structures of the language were identified as paramount, due to which it became possible to substantiate, creatively and methodologically correctly, the theory and methodology of experimental study of the sound structure of the language, and to predict milestones and steps of future research.Extralinguistic views were largely transmitted through phonetic structures and units.It is really important to assess and reveal the role of phonetics in the formation of the scientific knowledge system, because in the conditions of multilingualism, the sounds of native speech implicitly act as a means to formalize mental spaces (according to the tradition of Kazan Linguistic School, this can be a model of the word phonemography).Acoustic phonetics helps to reveal the general patterns of the dynamics of the speech model in communication between the speakers of heterogeneous languages and to identify vulnerable points in the articulatory base, using the acoustic parameters of sounding speech elements.Modern instrumental research is aimed at describing the acoustic component of speech, which contributes to a further in-depth study of human speech phenomenon as a complex associative aggregate (the definition of V.A.Bogoroditsky, the founder of experimental phonetics in Russia).Our research is aimed at revealing the role and potential of experimental phonetics in the process of phonetic knowledge formation.Read More