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Коартикуляционные изменения носовых согласных как показатель наличия просодического шва и порядка применения фонологических правил в русском языке
The paper reports some results of the research, aimed at finding out whether place coarticulation available in clusters of [labial or dental nasal + labiodental obstruent] within phonological word and in an external sandhi position in Modern Standard Russian and whether it may serve as a cue for detecting the presence of prosodic breaks and the order of phonological rules. The results obtained show that the F2 value of nasal before labiodental obstruent is significantly higher for bilabial one and significantly lower for coronal one as compared with their F2 values in the position before gomorganic stops. This type of place coarticulation is found only within phonological word and not available in an external sandhi position; thus the absence of this type of coarticulation may serve as a cue for detecting the presence of prosodic break. In the case of clusters with final palatalized labiodental obstruent the F2 value of bilabial nasal is found to be significantly higher that those of the coronal one since there is a palatalization coarticulation exists in Modern Standard Russian for bilabials but not coronals before labiodentals. Thus, we argue that the phonological rule of palatalization operates before the rule for place assimilation in Standard Russian.