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- Title
ON THE MID AND HIGH NON-LABIAL VOWELS IN LUUDITSA VOTIC.
- Authors
ROZHANSKIY, FEDOR; MARKUS, ELENA
- Abstract
This article investigates two questions concerning the Votic vowel system: (1) Is the contrast between e and e vowel phonemes preserved in contexts after j ; (2) Does contemporary Votic distinguish the vowel г used in Russian borrowings from other Votic vowels? The study is based on materials recorded from the last speakers of Votic. The analysis shows that in contexts after j the vowel e is phonetically similar but not identical to e; therefore, the contrast between the two vowels is not neutralized. The vowel г in Russian borrowings did not merge with any Votic vowels, but it had been adopted differently into Jogopera and Luuditsa varieties. The Jogopera speaker pronounces the vowel similarly to the Russian i, so this high non-front vowel becomes a pair to the high front i. The Luuditsa speaker, however, pronounces г almost as i. This fact is unexpected, but it can be explained with the hypothesis of "double borrowing" under the influence of the contacting Ingrian language. Notably, the Luuditsa Votic speaker may have adopted the Ingrian pronunciation of the Russian borrowings where the Russian vowel г is pronounced similarly to i.
- Subjects
VOTIC language; VOWEL harmony; PRONUNCIATION; EXPERIMENTAL phonetics; RUSSIAN phonology
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 4, p241
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2017.4.01