STACCATO" AND "LEGATO" IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH: FUNCTIONS OF RHYTHM IN GAME COMMUNICATION OF RUSSIAN AND GERMAN PRESCHOOLERS
The article discusses the features of the rhythmic organization of spontaneous children's speech in Russian and German. In the tradition of speech science, there is an idea of the “legato” rhythm specific to the Russian language, which is opposed to the German “staccato”. The terms borrowed from musical theory and used in research in the field of sounding speech reflect the characteristic features of rhythm: the chased, abrupt rhythm of German speech and the smooth, continuous rhythm of Russian. In the work, the material for which was video recordings of play communication of Russian and German preschoolers, cases of non-standard functioning of rhythm are analyzed. In the corpus of Russian sounding speech, fragments are distinguished in the rhythm of "staccato", in the corpus of German - "legato". A comparative analysis of the Russian "staccato", functioning as an expressive means of speech, and "staccato" in German is carried out.