CONTENTS LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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INTRODUCTION
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PART 1 THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF TERMINOLOGY 1.1. Term and terminology: underlying statements 1.2. Successful term criteria 1.3. General tendencies of development of terminological systems 1.4. Main lexical semantic relations in term vocabulary (polysemy, homonymy, paronymy, synonymy) 1.5. National and international trends of term fund updating
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PART 2 SEMANTIC, GRAMMATICAL, AND PHONETIC PROBLEMS OF UKRAINIAN TERMS CODIFICATION 75 Section 2.1. Semantic and morphological qualities of Ukrainian term vocabulary 75 2.1.1. Alien borrowings as a linguistic and terminological problem 75 2.1.2. Semantic and stylistic features of use of paronyms and pseudosynonyms in the professional language 83 2.1.3. Scientific approach to terminological use of verbal nouns 112 2.1.4. Principles of representation of active participial forms in the Ukrainian scientific language 125 2.1.5. Possibilities and prospects of national word coinage in terminology 127 Section 2.2. Acoustic characteristics of Ukrainian speech sounds as a ground for scientific approach to render the borrowings 135 2.2.1. Phonetics, acoustic analysis, speech recognition 135 2.2.2. Phonetical and phonological language elements 138 2.2.2.1. Basic concepts of phonetics and phonology 138 2.2.2.2. Nonlinearity and non-invariance of speech elements 147 2.2.3. Speech acoustics 152 2.2.3.1. Acoustic theory of speech production 152 2.2.3.2. Speech sounds formants 157 2.2.3.3. Resonators in a human speech tract 159 2.2.3.4. Invariant acoustic speech analysis 162 2.2.3.5. Acoustic characteristics and invariants of speech sounds 165 2.2.3.6. Interaction between sounds 179 6
