Makedonský temný vokál v lingvistickém diskurzu
Macedonian schwa in Linguistic discourse

Author(s): Kristýna Dufková
Subject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Comparative Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Macedonian language; dark vowel; schwa; Macedonian linguistics; phoneme; linguistic discourse;
Summary/Abstract: The article describes the problem of the “dark vowel” or schwa, which is one of the phones of Macedonian. It has been discussed among linguists whether this phone is a phoneme too, or just “a dark tone”. Even if it does not exist as a phoneme, it can be often heard in Macedonian, but in some cases it also functions as a phoneme – because it distinguishes the meaning of words. It is not difficult for Czech speakers to pronounce the schwa, but they mostly do not even know that it exists or where it is located. The schwa is not even mentioned in contemporary textbooks, but in my opinion it should be.

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