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The article is devoted to the problem of prosodic interference in the situation of artificial (classroom) multilingualism which is characterized by interaction of three languages with different prosodic systems. The article reveals how intonational transfer of English special question manifests itself in the speech of students, the bilinguals of the Yakut and Russian languages, who learn English as a foreign language. The results of comparative analysis of English special question, produced by the Yakut-Russian bi...

This paper presents the results of a study of cultural concepts on the material of the Yakut language. It deals with the analysis of binary concepts: LIFE / DEATH, GOOD / EVIL, LOVE / HATRED. These are basic cultural concepts that classify the world. In this case we focus on the relations between language and culture according to approaches “language as a cultural resource” (Duranti Alessandro, 1997) and “language as a general cultural phenomenon” (Marcel Danesi, 2004). Words and its meanings, collocations...