Phonetic realization of intonational constructions №2 in reference pronunciation in Russian interrogative sentences

Li Luokai

This study, based on the experimental analysis of the pitch frequency on different parts of utterance, is devoted to phonetic realization of intonational construction (IC) № 2 in reference pronunciation in Russian questions. During the experiment, by using Praat program were analyzed 50 sentences with pre-centers of IC №2, which were selected from audio accessories of modern works on teaching Russian as a foreign language. The obtained data show that phonetic realization of IC №2 depends on the type of sentence, which is classified by the pur-pose of utterance: the probability that pitch frequency falls at the stressed vowel of the accented word in one-syntagmatic interrogative sentences higher than in declaratives.

Keywords:phonetic; intonational construction; pitch frequency; timing