The current article presents the results of the Orochon noun categories study (number, declension and possessiveness) and their formation patterns. The study showed that as in other Tungusic languages, affix is the main morphological indicator of grammatical forms in the Orochon language. The data resulting from the comparison of Orochon and Evenki noun categories reveal the proximity of the grammatical systems of two genetically similar languages. The category of number of the Evenki and Orochon languages demonstrates the correspondence of formation of singular and plural noun forms. No special morphological indicator is used for Orochon and Evenki nouns in singular. The plural noun suffixes are similar. Case suffixes in the accusative, dative, directive and local case of the Evenki and Orochon languages are equivalent. Correlation of suffixes of the possessive nouns of the 1-st and 3-rd person singular and plural is proven. The reflexive suffixes in Evenki and Orochon reveal complete similarity in the singular and partial similarity in the plural.

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The article presents the results of auditory and instrumental types of analysis aimed at studying the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of pauses in spontaneous speech of Far Eastern residents of various age groups. The data are audio recordings of the spontaneous speech of Blagoveshchensk female residents of three age groups: adolescents 11-13 years old, young people 20-25 years old, elderly people (60-65 years old). The audio was recorded on WhatsApp application. The first stage included the calculation of all the speakers' pauses. Analysis of the pauses made it possible to group them in accordance with the existing classifications. From the total amount of data received, hesitation pauses were selected and divided into filled and unfilled ones. Instrumental analysis found out the types of filled pauses: vocalization, sound elongation, pauses of verbal search and non-verbal hesitation, self-correction pauses. In most cases vocalization is presented by the use of [a], [ɛ] and [m] sounds. The most frequent vocalized filler used by adolescents is [a] sound, by elderly people is [ɛ] sound. Sound elongation is mainly represented by the lengthening of [i] in conjunctions. The pauses of the verbal search are filled with junk words -young people tend to use them more often than other groups of speakers. Moreover, young people tend to use more filled pauses than adolescents and elderly people -the number of such pauses in their speech is 66%. Measurement of the average duration of pauses made it possible to conclude that this parameter increases with the age of the speakers -the

Аннотация В условиях билингвизма речь современного носителя эвенкийского языка представляет собой постоянное переключение с родного языка на русский язык. В статье рассмотрены случаи переключения кодов на материале устной монологической речи носителей зейского, джелтулакского и селемджинского говоров эвенкийского языка. Тесный контакт русского и эвенкийского языков оказывает влияние на лексический состав эвенкийского языка, что приводит к заимствованиям и вытеснению исконной лексики. Другим следствием давления доминирующего русского языка являются изменения в синтаксисе эвенкийского языка. Частотными случаями переключения кодов также является заимствование дискурсивных маркеров.

The current article focuses upon the results of the numerals analysis and the ways of their forming in the Orochon language. The obtained data are compared with the existing data from previous studies on the numeral paradigm in the Evenki language. The study enabled to identify 8 subcategories of numerals in each language with 6 of them being similar. The main patterns to derive numerals are compounding and affixation. Compounding is the most productive pattern for cardinal and approximate numerals and fractions while ordinal numerals, measuring, distributive and limitative numerals, collective numerals to count animals are formed by adding suffixes. Genetic affinity of the Orochon and Evenki languages is expressed by the same or similar numeral stems and suffixes forming various numeral subcategories.