PRONUNCIATION POSITIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE VIOLATION OF A PHONETIC WORD INTEGRITY

The article examines one of the most frequent phenomena of spontaneous oral speech — violation of a phonetic word integrity as a result of proclitic (preposition or conjunction) separation from a signifi cant word. The object of the study is public official speech (scientific and mass media). The article focuses on three aspects: 1) identification of pronunciation positions that affect the violation of the integrity of a phonetic word; 2) phonetic processes accompanying the separation of a clitic; 3) determination of trends in the development of the pronunciation system of the Russian language, manifested in the described phonetic phenomenon. 

The work traces the genesis of the term “pronunciation position” introduced by M. L. Kalenchuk. 

The article also describes and classifies a set of pronunciation positions that cause the separation of a clitic with certain phonetic “consequences”. Pronunciation positions are divided into speech and language by the factor of action. Speech positions include those reflecting the features of a specific situation, its communicative-pragmatic nature: violation of the boundaries of a phonetic word becomes one of the types of accentuated emphasis on a significant word or a communicative signal of a word selection situation. 

The language factors of the described processes encompass existing grammatical tendency to agglutinativity and the intensification of the action of special units — dieremes, or boundary signals as phonetic ways of indicating the boundaries between morphemes and words. 

As a result of the study, groups of prepositions were identified by the frequency of the described phenomenon, and a special role of the left context in this process was noted. The facts of written speech include numerous cases of clitic separation, where most of the recorded cases are a combination of a preposition with an introductory word or insertion.