Instrumental analysis of the duration of Kazakh vowels (based on latin alphabet)

Abstract

This article examines the instrumental analysis of the duration of vowels in isolated Kazakh words. In connection with the transition to the Latin alphabet, domestic phoneticians have a major task of describing the acoustic characteristics of the sounds of the Kazakh language on the basis of new graphics. In this article the authors analyze the duration of vowels in an instrumental aspect. As a rule, words spoken in isolation have their own phonetic characteristics in comparison with words in a speech stream. Duration is one of the main phonetic correlates responsible for the emphasis (prominence) of a particular syllable in a word. In the introduction the authors consider the theoretical background of this issue. One or many syllabic words with different vocal composition were used as linguistic material. In the main part the authors present the results of the instrumental-phonetic analysis of the duration of the vowel sounds of the Kazakh language. In this regard it is necessary to use different approaches and methods to consider this issue, as well as to conduct an experiment to obtain objective data in order to interpret this problem.