Consonant clusters in Russian speech  of an Ust-Nyukzha Evenki speaker
Journal: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Year: 2025

The current paper investigates L1-induced interference pattens in manifestation of consonant clusters in the Russian speech of a female speaker of the Ust-Nyukzha local accent of Evenki. The subject pronounced words containing word-initial, word-medial and word-final clusters. The recorded material was processed using auditory and acoustic analysis. As a result, we identified the phenomenon of plus-minus segmentation. The most characteristic patterns were dieresis, epenthesis and realization con