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“HIDDEN” VARIANTS OF THE RUSSIAN STANDARD PRONUNCIATION
The article is devoted to the works of L. A. Verbitskaya in the field of the Russian standard
pronunciation, manifestations of the orthoepic norm in different conditions of the
speaker’s speech activity. Research carried out at the Department of Phonetics of St Petersburg
State University in recent years and continuing at the present time shows
which phonemic sequences, differing from those prescribed by orthoepic dictionaries,
are observed in the speech of both professional speakers of the pronunciation norm,
and in the speech of young people in careful and reduced speech. The analysis of the
obtained results leads to possible interpretations of the terms “careful and reduced
pronunciation types”, “careful and reduced (colloquial) styles” of pronunciation. The
article also provides new data on the tendencies of change in the phonological system of the Russian language, formulated by L. A. Verbitskaya, which can lead to a change in
the pronunciation norm. A previously developed automatic transcriber is described. It
converts the text into a sequence of phonetic symbols that meet the requirements of
the orthoepic norm, and also offers variants of deviations from the norm observed in
a large corpus of prepared professional speech, as well as the statistical probabilities
of these deviations. The issues of both the loss of labialization, repeatedly described
by L. A. Verbitskaya, and abnormal labialization, are also considered, to be taken into
account in the new version of the automatic transcriber. Refs 35