Устные корпуса спонтанной речи как источник для изучения интонации общих вопросов в русских говорах

Abstract

The emergence of several online spoken corpora of Russian regional speech opens new possibilities for the study of regional Russian intonation. The Russian dialect corpora of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory [32; 1–10] were used to study the intonation of polar (yes/no) questions in regional rural speech. Although using spontaneous speech to study intonation is a challenge, the corpora are large enough to show general tendencies. The typical risingfalling pitch accent of most polar questions in Central Standard Russian is predominant in the regional corpora as well, but with possible variation in phonetic implementation and in the association of the fall. This accent is the most common even in the majority of question utterances with lowered questionhood, and dominates even in the regions known for rising accents in questions. The corpora show that tag questions are frequent in these interview data, unlike the question particles li, ti and či. Not only the dialectal particles ti and či, but also the Standard Russian question particle li shows a varying regional distribution.