On some phonetic features of spontaneous speech (based on the English and Kabardian-Circassian languages)

Abstract

The article examines two phonetic phenomena of English and Kabardino-Circassian spontaneous speech – assimilation of consonants and elimination of consonants and vowels in the flow of speech. In general, the processes occurring in live speech, if they are not known, can turn into a factor that complicates the perceptual assessment of the utterance. This circumstance results in various kinds of difficulties in communication, especially in a situation of casual communication, a characteristic feature of which is reliance on an incomplete communication style. In the course of the study, the works of authoritative Russian and foreign phoneticians have been analyzed, attention has drawn to the overload of the concept of assimilation in the presence of terms that can more accurately describe a certain phonetic phenomenon, an attempt is made to systematize the presented data and answer the question of how regular the phenomena of assimilation and elision are: in English spontaneous speech, assimilation often occurs at the junction of morphemes, and consonant elision occurs with a large confluence (clusters) of consonants, vowel elision occurs in an unstressed position; Kabardian spontaneous speech is characterized by regressive assimilation, the elimination of the vowel at the end of the morpheme.