Vowel reduction in spontaneous Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish

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Abstract
This study compares spontaneous speech data from Judeo-Spanish as spoken in Bulgaria (BJS) and from Bulgarian (BG) with respect to spectral and durational reduction of unstressed vowels, as well as the ensuing height neutralizations. It is shown that BJS speakers, who are all bilingual with BG, largely follow Bulgarian reduction patterns, i.e., unstressed underlyingly non-high vowels raise considerably and tend to merge with their high counterparts. At the same time, however, the dialectal background of the speakers emerges as a relevant factor since neutralizing reduction of front vowels is only present in Eastern Bulgarian dialects. In contrast, raising is gradient in (close-to-standard) western dialects, where the raising of unstressed /ɛ/ to [i] is highly stigmatized.
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https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/220.pdf
Conference finish date
2023
Funding acknowledgements
  • German Research Foundation: 491553503
ISBN-13
9788090811423
Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
20
Zeitschrift
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Conference place
Prague
Name of conference
20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Paginierung
2844 - 2848, 5
Ort der Veröffentlichung
Prague
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2023
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GUARANT International spol. s r.o.
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https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/220.pdf
Datum der Datenerfassung
2023
Conference start date
2023
Titel
Vowel reduction in spontaneous Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish

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