Branched Linguistic Analysis as a Tool for Identifying Attributes Montage’s of Phonograms

The issues of a branched linguistic analysis of sounding texts for the presence / absence of editing signs or other changes made during the recording process or after its completion on phonograms containing these texts is discussed in the article. The relevance of the work is due to the rapid development of digital technologies for the fixation, analysis and processing of sound (primarily speech) signals and the use of these technologies for the purpose of falsifying phonograms. Particular attention in the work offered to readers is paid to highlighting those theoretical foundations that serve as the basis of the linguistic part of a comprehensive study of sound recordings in relation to their authenticity. The material for the study offered to the readers' attention was a set of sounding texts of those phonograms of Russian speech that were involved in the field of operational-search activity, investigation and legal proceedings as a source of evidence. The author dwells in detail on the issues of a branched linguistic analysis of these texts, consistently analyzes from a theoretical point of view the constituent stages of such a forensic study, shows the role of the linguistic part of the expertise in the integral complex study of sound recordings from the point of view of their integrity.