INTONATION OF STATEMENTS IN RUSSIAN AND EVENKI
The article considers the intonation contour characteristics of affirmative sentences in the Russian and the Evenki languages. The typical pitch changes are analyzed in different parts of the syntagma; similar and different features of pitch contour in the two languages are determined. The obtained results enable to conclude that the main distinctive feature of Evenki speech is the presence of relatively stable melodic segments and small ascending and descending transitions between them, in contrast to the smooth pitch curves in Russian speech. Contrast changes in the pitch level realized in a relatively small melodic range result in stepping scale of the Evenki melodic pattern on the whole, and this contributes into creating monotonous effect in the intonation of Evenki affirmative sentences compared to Russian ones.