Writing-based wordforms vs. spoken wordforms

Abstract

This study addresses a very important problem of reshaping Russian Grammar in conformity with its real acoustic realization rather than with the traditionally written expression plane. In this way, one can switch from an absolutely abstract coding of wordforms to acoustic entities, first phonological and then phonetic, which underlie the real processes of speech production and speech perception. The multiple approach to grammar writing makes it necessary to develop a special database for the phonologically represented wordforms of Russian. Typically, the respective paradigms are reduced. More generally, the links camouflaged by the traditional orthography are made visible. E.g., the Adjective Gender paradigm, normally made up of three genders, is reduced to a two-item paradigmatic structure, because Neuter Gender and Feminine Gender just merge.