Original scientific paper
THE POSITION-DEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT OF SHORT O AND Q IN THE DIALECT OF EASTERN DOLENJSKO
Vera Smole
; Institut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU
Abstract
Changes in short vowels may either go beyond dialect borders or affect nar - rower areas, sometimes even being different from one village to another. Replacements of other vowels by a and u respectively, as well as umlaut, are instances of the present-day vowel reduction, while diphthonisation of word-final -e/-ç and -o/-q results from a development of consonants (simplification of palatalised and labialised consonants into asynchronous consonant clusters). The extreme position-dependent replacement by u (in post-velar, post-labial and post- labiodental positions) and by a (in all other post-consonant positions) and the umlaut (after functionally soft consonants: /j/ < j, h, /V < I, /c z s/) both in the local speech of Sentrupert and in the dialect of Eastern Dolenjsko in general can be explained as a result of inter dialectal influences: at same places in the west, Eastern Dolenjsko is bordered by ^-replacing speeches, and in the east by ^-replacing speeches, the Eastern Dolenjsko speech supposedly providing a transition between the two.
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202442
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Publication date:
13.3.1997.
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