Определение регулярных фонетических соответствий карельской диалектной речи. Консонантизм
Determining regular phonetic correspondences in the Karelian dialects. Consonantism

Summary/Abstract: This article is a continuation of the study of the phonetic system of Karelian sub-dialects using the Cognate Analysis algorithm on LingvoDoc linguistic platform, more specifically, their consonantism. Source data for the study was lexical dialectal materials dating to 1979-1981 on 24 Karelian sub-dialects, sampled from the “Comparative Onomasiology Dictionary of Karelian, Veps, and Sami Dialects” (2007). A comparison of these data with corresponding material on six Veps sub-dialects gives ground to conclude that the Veps substrate has played the lead role in shaping the Livvi and Ludic Karelian supradialects. The correspondence series produced by the software in tabular form highlighted the main distinctions in consonantism between Karelian dialects. These include, first of all, voiced/voiceless opposition, distribution of front fricative consonants, degree of consonant palatalization, distribution of the consonants j / d’, vocalization of the consonant l, retention/contraction of geminates in post-sonorant and coda positions. Having involved uncertain correspondence series in the analysis, we managed to determine the main functional features of some correspondence phenomena more precisely and to expand their list. A comparison of the resultant vocalism and consonantism maps suggests a division of Karelian subdialects into two large zones: the Karelian Proper, comprising the northern, southern (Central Russia), and middle (Middle Karelia) subgroups, and the Livvi-Ludic one, which falls into the Livvi and the Ludic subgroups depending on features of the vocalic system. The Ludic sub-dialect of Vlg. Gallezero occupied an intermediate position between them. The results of this study will be used in making a Karelian dialect classification based on linguistic data.

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