SEGMENTAL UNITS AS AN INDICATOR OF EMOTIONAL PERCEPTION OF THE SOUNDING SPEECH

Abstract

Problem Statement. Our research refers to the theory of emotionality and focuses on expressive means of sounding speech. When considering expressive means of sounding speech, we refer to the segmental level, namely to the distinctive features of vowel phonemes. We suggest that the complexes of semantic features of vowel phonemes and the frequency of their realization is one of the indicators of emotional perception and its correlation with a particular emotion. Besides it affects the perception of sounding speech in a particular emotional way, regardless of its semantics. The author has described and developed the mechanism of psycholinguistic experiment on revealing the perception of emotionally colored speech in connection with the functioning of the units of the language system in their differential attributes in the perception of sounding speech. Results.The results of the research showed that the distinctive features of vowel phonemes may be one of the indicators of correlation of emotional perception with a particular emotion. Moreover, when emotionality increases, one should expect regular and systematic changes of means for its expression. Furthermore, the polar basic emotions of both German and Russian speakers may coincide in the perception of the same material, which can be explained by the presence of universal and culture-bound specifics of emotional perception of the distinctive characteristics of vowels. Conclusion. Due to the results of the research, we may conclude that a systematic approach to the study of the phenomena of speech is possible because of the fact that the relationship between the functioning of the distinctive characteristics of vowel phonemes and the emotional coloring of the sounding text has a systemic nature.