The Sound Pattern of Russian: A Linguistic and Acoustical Investigation

Introductory Note
Foreword
A Note on the Sign Conventions
PART I PHONOLOGY
Chapter I SEGMENTS AND BOUNDARIES
1. Introduction: A Theory of Phonology
2. The Phonological System of Russian
3. Comments on Details of the Phonological System of Russian
Chapter II SEQUENTIAL CONSTRAINTS
1. Introduction
2. The Morpheme Structure (MS) Rules
3. The Phonological (P) Rules
PART II ACOUSTICS
Chapter III A NON-TECHNICAL ACCOUNT OF SOME ELEMENTARY CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES OF ACOUSTICS
1. Introduction
2. Elementary Exposition of Some Concepts and Techniques of Acoustics
3. Digression on the Relation Between the Descriptive Frameworks of Acoustics, of Psycho-Acoustics and of Phonetics
Chapter IV A CRITICAL SURVEY OF ACOUSTICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SPEECH SOUNDS
Chapter V THE ACOUSTICAL CORRELATES OF THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF RUSSIAN
1. Subjects and Material
2. Measurement Procedure
3. Vocalic vs. Non-Vocalic, and Consonantal vs. Non-Consonantal
4. Compact vs. Noncompact, Diffuse vs. Nondiffuse, and Low vs. High Tonality
5. Strident vs. Mellow
6. Nasal vs. Nonnasal
7. Continuant vs. Interrupted
8. Voiced vs. Unvoiced
9. Sharp vs. Plain
Excursus CONTEXTUAL VARIANTS OF THE RUSSIAN VOWELS
1. Introduction
2. Phonetic and Phonemic Analysis
3. The Russian Vowel Variants
4. General Remarks
Appendix I Formant Frequencies of Russian Vowels
Appendix II Energy Density Spectra of Stop Bursts and Continuants
Bibliography