The research presented in this paper has been conducted in the framework of the large sociolinguistic project aimed at describing everyday spoken Russian and analyzing the special characteristics of its usage by different social groups of speakers. The research is based on the material of the ORD corpus containing long-term audio recordings of everyday communication. The aim of the given exploratory study is to reveal the linguistic parameters, in terms of which the difference in speech between different social groups is the most evident. An exploratory subcorpus, consisting of audio fragments of spoken communication of 12 respondents (6 men and 6 women, 4 representatives for each age group, and representatives of different professional and status groups) with the total duration of 106 min and of similar communication settings, was created and fully annotated. The quantitative description of a number of linguistic parameters on phonetic, lexical, morphological, and syntax levels in each social group was made. The biggest difference between social groups was observed in speech rate, phonetic reduction, lexical preferences, and syntactic irregularities. The study has shown that the differences between age groups are more significant than between gender groups, and the speech of young people differs most strongly from the others.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpeech and Computer
Subtitle of host publication18th International Conference, SPECOM 2016, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-27, 2016, Proceedings
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages100-107
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-43958-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-43957-0
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event18 International Conference on Speech and Computer - Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 23 Aug 201627 Aug 2016
Conference number: 18
http://www.specom2016.hte.hu/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Nature
Volume9811
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference18 International Conference on Speech and Computer
Abbreviated titleSpecom 2016
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period23/08/1627/08/16
Internet address

    Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Information Systems

    Research areas

  • speech corpus, Russian language, sociolinguistics, Russian everyday speech, Multilevel linguistic analysis, Phonetics, Vocabulary, Syntax, Social groups

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