Звуковая картина языка как совокупность цепочек звуков в речи. Часть 1

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of the investigation of the sound picture of a language. A sound picture of a language is understood as the sum of the frequency of phonemes in its speech sound chain. It is possible to solve some linguistic problems only using certain statistical methods. Quantitative methods can contribute much to the investigation of the distances from Russian to some other Slavonic languages on the basis of their sound pictures. A huge sample of more than 20 million sounds, computed by the author, represents the sound picture of Russian.