Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article devoted to the analysis of the causes of a word breakage in spontaneous Komi speech, as well as to identification of typical causes of this type of failure in the speech of speakers of different-structured languages.
Objective: to identify and describe the causes of a word breakage in spontaneous Komi speech, to compare the causes in spontaneous Komi and Russian speech.
Research materials: audio- and video-recordings contained in the Komi Media Library of the Interregional Laboratory of Information Support for the Functioning of Finno-Ugric Languages, as well as fragments of conversations of participants in programs shown in the Komi Republican television channel “Yurgan”.
Results and novelty of the research: the article for the first time analyzes the causes of a word breakage in spontaneous Komi speech. It has been identified that in spontaneous Komi speech a word breakage can be caused by various causes. To a greater extent, it is due to problems of a lexical-semantic nature – the choice and search for a specific lexical unit, and to a lesser extent – the determination of the grammatical and phonetic form of a word. It was found that in spontaneous Komi and Russian speech, a word breakage can be caused by the same reasons, including the choice between synonymous or semantically similar words that differ in the sphere of use; the choice between grammatical and phonetic options; lexical, phonetic and grammatical clause; introduction of additional information; error in the preceding word, hesitation. In the spontaneous speech of a speaker who is equally proficient in two languages (native and non-native) and two forms (literary and dialectal) of the same language, a word breakage can also be caused by bilingualism and diglossia, which is typical for the vast majority of native Komi speakers.
Key words: oral speech, speech failures, hesitation, speaker’s self-corrections, word breakage, bilingualism, diglossia, Komi language
Acknowledgements: the publication was prepared within the framework of the planned topic of the research work of the Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Federal Research Centre, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Permian languages in the linguo-cultural space of the European North and the Urals” (reg. No. 121042600252-7).
For citation: Nekrasova G. A. Causes of a word breakage in spontaneous Komi speech // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (2/57): 288–295.