Is there a standard pronunciation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish? Evidence from /e/-to-[i] raising in read and spontaneous speech
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- Abstract
- Our paper approaches the questions of whether the variety of Judeo-Spanish spoken in present-day Bulgaria has developed a standard pronunciation. We analyze a corpus of read and spontaneous speech recorded by four Judeo-Spanish/Bulgarian bilinguals and focus on the production of unstressed /e/, which is raised to [i] in North-Eastern Bulgarian dialects, but remains [e] in the Standard variety spoken in Sofia. We show that speakers who acquired a North-Eastern Bulgarian variety in early childhood present /e/-to-[i]-raising when they spontaneously speak Judeo-Spanish, while this feature hardly occurs in their Judeo-Spanish reading pronunciation nor in their (read and spontaneous) Bulgarian data. This indicates that these speakers have an idea of a “correct” pronunciation of their language, which, in turn, speaks in favor of a standardization of pronunciation and corroborates Quintana’s (2010) interpretation of Judeo-Spanish as a pluricentric language, with Sofia representing one of the centers of gravity besides, e.g., İstanbul.
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- 3631756232
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- 9783631756232
- Schlüsselwörter
- Foreign Language Study
- Paginierung
- 367 - 381, 14
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- Pluricentric languages and non-dominant varieties worldwide: new pluricentric languages – old problems
- Ort der Veröffentlichung
- Frankfurt
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2018
- Herausgeber
- Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- Is there a standard pronunciation of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish? Evidence from /e/-to-[i] raising in read and spontaneous speech
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