REGIONAL PHONETIC FEATURES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD OF THE CULTURAL VILNIUS POLISH LANGUAGE (VOCALISM) Cover Image

Regionalne cechy fonetyczne w międzywojennej kulturalnej polszczyźnie wileńskiej (wokalizm)
REGIONAL PHONETIC FEATURES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD OF THE CULTURAL VILNIUS POLISH LANGUAGE (VOCALISM)

Author(s): Joanna Joachimiak-Prażanowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Phonetics / Phonology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: phonetic features, vocalism; cultural Vilnius Polish language; interwar period;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the phonetic peculiarities of vocalism functioning in the cultural VilniusPolish language during the interwar period. The research reveals the most common phenomenaas well as the most characteristic ones for the northern borderlands pronunciation. Characteristiclinguistic facts were excerpted from “Kurier Wileński” published in 1924–1939. In the studiednewspaper there were 6 effects reflecting the occurrence of regional dialect (vocalism). The majorityof phonetic peculiarities were characterized by a high textual frequency. The most often recordedwere the following ones: quaint o as an equivalent of common ó, the extension of o to a and e to a,as well as hypercorrect inverted alternations.

  • Issue Year: 2/2014
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 61-73
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish