ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF PROSODIC FEATURES OF SPEECH ACTS OF WISHES AND CONGRATULATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN, GERMAN, SPANISH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES
The paper focuses on a comparative analysis of prosodic features of speech through the example of speech situations of wishes and congratulations produced by Russian, German, Spanish and Italian native speakers. The experimental research is based on the method of acoustic analysis of utterances in order to analyse prosodic properties of the pragmatic acts in the above-mentioned languages.