Title:Speech Perception Problems of Central Asian LanguagesSubmitted by: Abuov ZH. A., Kazakh State Law University , Republic of KazakhstanFor the first time in Linguistics an analysis of the Kazakh (Central Asian) phonetic and phonological systems of speech sounds has been carried out with the aim to define the differentiation, segmentation and combination of phonemes in speech, as well as their interrelations and influence on each other from the point of view of speech perception with the application of computer spectrographic and intonographic analysis, based on two contradicting theories. The experiments were performed on Kazakh vowels and consonants that were synthesized by special computer programs. These speech sounds were also transplanted to other contexts of meaningful units (morphemes). The synthetical segmentations with natural phonemes in the contexts of meaningful units were analysed by the methods of speech perception. The author is the first scholar who has discovered zonal peculiarities of articulation, acoustics, perception and auditing of Kazakh vowels and consonants applying acoustical analysis and convincing results have been gained. The investigator having applied psycholinguistic, psychoacoustic methods ad analyising them in the sphere of articulation, acoustics, speech perception, auditing, comes to the conclusion that to comprehend the Kazakh speech one needs the knowledge of Synharmonical Basis, typical of all Turkic languages. The author considers that the notion of Synharmonical Basis should be introduced into the Kazakh phonetics and phonological science and suggests that his approach to the above phenomenon can be considered a new hypothesis. 'Return to Abstracts menuCarol Burnett Phone: 61 - 3 - 9349 1899 Email: c.burnett@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
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