filkultФилология и культура. Philology and CulturePhilology and Culture2782-4756Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет10.26907/2782-4756-2026-84-2-32-43filkult-1355Research ArticleФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ. ЛИНГВИСТИКАPHILOLOGICAL STUDIES. LINGUISTICSВремя задержки голоса относительно момента взрыва согласного в имитациях иностранного акцента носителями английского языка в кинематографеVoice onset time in foreign accent imitations by English l1 speakers in cinematographyhttps://orcid.org/0009-0006-9194-3435ЕфремоваК. В.EfremovaK. V.

Ефремова Ксения Валерьевна, старший преподаватель

141982, Московская область, Дубна, Университетская, 19

Efremova Ksenia Valerievna, Assistant Professor

18, Universitetskaya Str., Dubna, Moscow Region, 141982

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В статье рассматривается время начала озвончения (ВНО) в реализациях глухих взрывных согласных как возможный акустический ключ и характерная особенность иностранного акцента при имитации русского и французского акцентов носителями английского языка в англоязычном кинематографе. Исследования тенденций произношения неносителей английского языка показывают, что их речь характеризуется менее продолжительными значениями ВНО для глухих взрывных согласных, если родной язык не является аспирационным. Отклонения от стандартных для языка значений ВНО могут рассматриваться носителями языка как признак иностранного акцента.

Проведенный количественный акустический анализ и статистическая обработка показывают, что краткое положительное ВНО для глухих взрывных согласных является продуктивным средством имитации французского акцента в инициалях с одним согласным, и в меньшей степени является таковым в имитируемом русском акценте. Носителям английского языка труднее нарушать произносительные тенденции в сложных консонантных структурах, таких как в инициалях с комбинацией глухой взрывной и сонанта или с глухим альвеолярным сибилянтом и глухой взрывной согласной. Даже в осознанных имитациях отклонений от произносительной нормы родного языка место формирования преграды глухого взрывного согласного остается важным для длительности ВНО.

The paper considers voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops as a possible acoustic cue and a salient feature of a foreign accent in the Russian and French accent imitations by English L1 speakers in English cinematography. The studies of pronunciation tendencies in English L2 tend to show evidence of shorter VOT values for voiceless stops in English L2 speakers if their native tongue is a non-aspiration one. Deviations from the native VOT values could be considered by L1 speakers as a marker of a foreign accent. The conducted quantitative acoustic analysis and the results of statistical processing show that a short-lag positive VOT for voiceless stops is a productive means of imitation of the French accent in one-consonant onsets, and less so in the imitated Russian accent. Violations of English native pronunciation habits are less likely in complex consonantal structures, such as s + stop or s + sonorant. The place of articulation of the voiceless plosive remains important for VOT duration even in deliberate accent imitations.

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