VOICE TIMBRE AND ITS CORRELATIONWITH NONVERBAL COMPONENTS OF COMMUNICATION
Analysis of works devoted to timbre involves researches carried out abroad and traditional in Russian linguistics. Classification of the types of voice correlating with such natural phenomena as “fire”, “earth”, “water”, and “air” being in the focus of the present study, the author shares own observations and examples on the subject. On the whole, highly estimating the existing system of breathing and voice exercises aimed at developing human timbre capacities, the author suggests an alternative opinion on some points. The problem of timbre origin and its development in the context of human emotions formation in the process of the evolution is also discussed.