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Name: The sound systems investigations of the Siberian peoples’ languages by the latest research techniques

Authors: Iraida Ya. Selyutina, Nikolay S. Urtegeshev, Tatyana R. Ryzhikova, Andrey I. Shevela, Andrey Yu. Letyagin

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Institute International Tomography Center of the Siberi

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The complex interdisciplinary investigation being carried out by the workers of three SB RAS Institutes is in agreement with the efforts of the world scientific society aimed at preserving the minority languages as a constituent part of a biological, cultural and linguistic unity. Obtained for the first time by using the up-to-date tech-niques of the magnetic-resonance tomography, digital roentgenography and laryngo-scopy and reported to the scientific society have been the objective experimental-phonetic data on the endangered languages. A computer database of the phonetics of the indigenous ethnic groups of Siberia and the neighbouring regions has been formed, somatic tuning parameters have been revealed and a typology of the articulatory-acoustic bases is being developed.

Keywords: phonetics, phonology, siberian peoples’ languages, articulatory-acoustic base, ex-perimental-phonetic methods, magnetic-resonance tomography, digital roentgeno-graphy, laryngoscopy

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