Volume 35, Issue 6

The modern understanding of prosody and its correlation to intonation on the basis of the author’s Moscow Laboratory experimental data is given in this article. Intonation is not subjected to prosody; the latter is also regarded as the lingual phenomenon sui generis. The hypothesis on communicative, lingual and psychological substance of prosody is proposed.

Contemporary phonology, with its emphasis on phonetic features, needs an adequate linguistic phonetics. In this paper, we examine criteria of scientific truth and their implications for a scientific investigation of the speech chain. Recent progress in fundamental research requires that the features postulated should not only be sufficient but also adequate. With adequacy in mind, we explore the phonology of the syllable from a slightly different point of view. It seems to us that the phonetic output needs to be examined in a more refined and adequate manner. This is particularly true at what we shall show to be an intermediate level of contextually determined concatenation of phonemes.