Jaunųjų šiauliškių ir panevėžiškių tarminė savimonė: ribos mentaliniuose žemėlapiuose
Dialectal Self-awareness of the Young Inhabitants of Šiauliai and Panevėžys: Borders in Mental Maps

Summary/Abstract: The article introduces the research into the dialectal self-awareness of the young inhabitants of the cities of Šiauliai and Panevėžys. The data of the dialectal mental map, which is one of the most important tasks in perceptive dialectology, serve as research material. The analysis of the material collected at the border of the dialects or in the nearby towns indicated that the binary classification of the Lithuanian dialects given by dialectologists and the one existing in the self-awareness of the ordinary language users is different. The young respondents tend to attribute the Aukštaitian dialect to a small area of the dialect which is specified in the works of dialectologists. Quite a large remaining territory of the Aukštaitian dialect goes to the people of Dzūkija and Suvalkija which are considered separate dialectal units.

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