On the positional approach to the description of articulatory phenomena

A common feature of phonetic and orthoepic phenomena of the Russian language is that they can be analyzed through a positional approach. Instead of opposing phonetics and orthoepy to each other, a positional approach makes it possible to combine phonetics and orthoepy in a single description. Therefore all articulatory patterns should be divided not into phonetic and orthoepic, but into positional and non-positional. The result of systematic application of positional multifactorial approach to the phenomena of Russian pronunciation should be a description in which the realization of any phoneme depends on its position and is predicted in terms of probability, whereas lexicalizational nonpositional phenomena are set by the list.