Review article

https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2022.3

Word-initial /ɨ/~[ɨ] in Polish

Alexander Andrason orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824 ; Stellenbosch University

Abstract

The present article examines the accuracy of the widespread opinion according to which Polish entirely lacks a word-initial phoneme or (allo)phone /ɨ/~[ɨ]. After reviewing seventeen nominal, adjectival, interjective, and ideophonic lexemes, the author concludes the following: the word-initial /ɨ/~[ɨ] is attested in Polish; however, it is peripheral from the perspective of the phonological and/or phonetic system of this language.

Keywords

Polish; phonetics/phonology; vocalic system; /ɨ/~[ɨ] <y>

Hrčak ID:

280772

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/280772

Publication date:

21.7.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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