Methodology and procedure for determining the yakut bilinguals’ dominant language

Nikolaev A. I.

The article describes the methodology and procedure for determining the dominant Yakut or Russian language in Yakut bilinguals speech, proposed by the author. This work is a stage of experimental phonetic study of intonation interference in artificial (classroom) multilingualism. The method of revealing the dominance of the language was: survey, conducting a test that included a reading material by the informants in Yakut and Russian languages where the subsequent audit analysis have been performed by the teachers of the Yakut language of North-Eastern Federal university named after M.K. Ammosov.

Keywords:dominant language, intonation interference, Yakut bilinguals, artificial multilingualism, experimental phonetic study