On the Final Voicing of Consonants in Bilingual Colloquial Speech Cover Image

За краесловната звучност на консонантите в билингвална разговорна реч
On the Final Voicing of Consonants in Bilingual Colloquial Speech

Author(s): Vladislav Marinov
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”

Summary/Abstract: The research proves that the consonant opposition ’’voiced-voiceless’’ in the absolute word-final maintains in the Wallachian dialect in the outhermost Northwestern Region of Bulgaria. There is no interference from the Bulgarian language, where in the absolute word-final this opposition is neutralized. In this special feature the phonetics of the Wallachian dialect is closer to the Romance languages. The realization of the voiced consonant at the word-final in the Wallachian speech of the bilingual people is often met in the idiolects of all informators and is not influenced by extralingual factors.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 323-329
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian