THE DEPENDENCE OF LEXICAL PLANNING AND ARTICULATION

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to the question of reflecting the level of lexical planning on the speaker’s articulation characteristics. Its purpose is to explore, first, the relationship between communicative situation and lexical planning, and second, its impact on pronunciation processes. The relationship between lexical language planning and articulation plays an important theoretical role in understanding language production. However, its nature remains poorly understood. And although linguists distinguish three aspects of language production (planning process, articulation plan and plan of performance), research in this area is mainly focused on the relationship between the first and last aspect. Any systematic change of articulation occurs solely due to variations in the planning and search for the representation of the word. Acoustic reduction occurs through the simplification of production mechanisms, and the reduction is the result of some combination of activating conceptual and linguistic representations associated with the word and simplifying any of the processes involved in creating the articulation of the plan from the concept. According to this view, it is assumed that changes in the pronunciation of a word due to contextual data occur entirely through the simplification of the processes of representation or coding involved in planning. This paper focuses on the study of possible ways of influence and dependence of lexical planning and articulation processes at both segmental and supersegmental levels by studying the relationship between communication and lexical planning, as well as the influence of language planning on pronunciation.

Methods. To achieve this goal, methods were used such as covert recording methods (to obtain speech samples that most accurately reflect the natural speech behavior of the speaker), semi-standard interview (its principle is that the interviewer has the opportunity depending on the circumstances, vary the form of questions, which are aimed not at obtaining certain information from respondents, but at obtaining samples of speech of the required styles) and included observation (recording the informant’s speech in a formal communication situation), auditory (to identify and interpret collected material), comparative method (for comparing pronunciation variants of different communicative situations).

Results. Increasing complexity of speech production during lexical planning leads to increased articulation detail. Reducing complexity of production leads to a decrease in pronunciation, which means faster planning, will lead to fewer details.

Conclusions. The more relaxed the communication environment is, the simpler and shorter the words the speaker uses and, as a result, the articulation becomes less detailed. Various processes of sound changing, and at the same time intonation models are not always directly related to the tendency to save language in a situation of relaxed communication, but also to the peculiarities of linguistic planning, the speed of which increases significantly during spontaneous speech.