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This paper describes an experimental study which investigates the viability of the currently accepted method in the prosodic analysis of the speech flow including oral discourse sequencing, semantic segmentation, functional equivalence, topic recycling and intentionality factors. The paper is focused upon an area that can be referred to an auditory identification of semantic focus (rheme) as a part of an analysis of the information structure of messages, which expresses the largest amount of extra meaning on the domain of oral communication by means of e.g. Skype-dialogs on the Internet. On the basis of an experiment, relevant prosodic features of speech perception processes are determined with reference to the spoken Russian Skype-discourse considering the correlation between its structural composition and semantic content.