REALIZATION OF VOICELESS AND VOICED PLOSIVE CONSONANTS IN THE RUSSIAN SPEECH OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN IN GERMANY
The article analyzes realization of voiceless and voiced plosive consonants in the speech of the Russian-speaking bilingual children of Germany reading aloud a phonetically representative text. The author measures bilingual children’s voice pause period regarding the instant of explosion of voiced plosive consonants (the start time of vocalization - STV), since she considers it the most reliable acoustic indicator to differentiate between voiceless and voiced consonants. Voiced plosive consonants STV characteristics differ in the Russian and German languages; consequently, inter-lingual phonetic interference occurs.