RUSÇADA DARALMA SÜRECİ

The acquisition of phonetic competence in the process of foreign language learning is very important, because communication, the main purpose of learning any language, can be achieved only through correct pronunciation. Phonological processes that exist in the phonetic systems of languages are natural and inevitable facts of pronunciation. The majority of phonetic processes are developed on the basis of the least effort law, and phonetic competence, reflecting these processes, significantly increases the effectiveness of foreign language usage. This study is devoted to the vowel reduction phenomenon, one of the most specific characteristics of the Contemporary Russian. One of the most prominent features of vowel reduction in Russian is its two-stage process. The fact that the reduction is two-staged, various- in terms of positional and combinatorial context, and not reflected in the written language make this phenomenon a complex point in learning Russian as a foreign language. The aim of this paper is to describe and systemize Russian vowel reduction phenomenon. Study also contains some suggestions on how to overcome problems in building phonetic competence of reduction. The reduction patterns described in the paper concern Contemporary Standard Russian, which is based on the Moscow Dialect. The reduction phenomenon is described within the framework of the Russian phonetic tradition.