Abstract
Data retrieval can be based on the keywords found in the orthographic records of sound speech. This paper is aimed at analyzing the communicative meanings, compositions of meanings expressed by prosody, and the structure of segmental material aligned with prosodic variations. The meanings and their compositions expressed by prosody can have segmental counterparts, e.g., lexemes, or some other linguistic units. These counterparts, in turn, are used as keywords for retrieval. The results of searching are used as a material for analyzing the syntactic structure of the communicative components of sentences, such as themes and rhemes of statements, and the components of some specific illocutions (dreams, recollections, explanations), and combinations of illocutions with discourse incompleteness. The data source for this analysis is the Russian National Corpus (Multimodal sub-corpus Murko), Prosodically Annotated Corpus of Spoken Russian (Spokencorpora.ru), and video-hosting Youtube. As the instrument, the computer system for sound speech analyzing Praat is used. The paper is illustrated throughout with pitch contours of sound records.
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