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Просодия говоров Терского берега Белого моря: предвaрительные наблюдения<br>(Prosodic Aspects of the Dialects of the Ter Coast of the White Sea: Preliminary Results)
No full textThe present article presents some preliminary results of the study of some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently collected recordings, we observed a number of prosodic characteristics which are assumed to be typical for Northern Russian. Firstly, vowels appear to be relatively short. Secondly, it was often rather difficult to determine the location of the stressed syllables. Thirdly, a tendency to attach a repeating prosodic pattern to each phonological word was observed. Finally, many non-question utterances ended in a rising pitch movement, although the steepness and the height of the Ter rise appear to be less extreme than in, for instance, some Pinega dialects of the Archangel' sk oblast' . Interestingly, the second and third characteristics seem to be closely related. In all but one of the cases with unclear stress patterns, the first syllable was realised with high pitch, immediately preceded and followed by low pitch. This seems to be the result of a tendency to attach a rising-falling pattern to each phonological word
Проблемы изучения севернорусского слова <i>дак</i>: достижения и недостаткищ<br>(Advantages and Shortcomings of Different Perspectives in Describing Northern Russian dak)
No full textThe word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence ini- tially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions.
This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six dif- ferent perspectives which have been used to describe this unspecified, multifunctional word: descriptions in traditional grammatical terms, in syntactic terminology used for spontaneus speech, research on its role in information structure, its use in discourse, the role of prosody, and finally comparisons with parallel words in neighbouring and other languages. I conclude that a combination of approaches is required for a better understanding of the way dak functions. Studies in prosody combined with research on dak's role in information structure appear to be most fruitful, and modern theories of discourse structure, which are almost completely ignored at present, could be helpful. Much research remains to be done, especially to clarify the restrictions on the use of the word dak and the way it functions in less obvious contexts
The Position of the Dialect of Varzuga in the Russian Dialect Landscape
Get PDFThis article investigates the north Russian dialect of Varzuga, attempting at determining its position in the Russian dialect landscape
“Frog Story” and “Map Task” in the Russian countryside
Get PDFThis article reports on experimental work with speakers of standard Russian and Russian dialects on the Kola peninsula. The proposed methodology, though showing some difficulties when applied in a Russian dialectological fieldwork setting, provides data on various varieties of Russian that can prove to be a rich source for many kinds of comparative linguistic research
Говор деревни Койды Мезенского района Архангельской области (в сопоставлении с соседними говорами)<br>(
No full textThe present article deals with the dialect of Kojda, a village situated on the White Sea coast in the Mezen' rajon of the Archangel'sk oblast'. The dialects of the Archangel'sk oblast' are poorly described, because most of the area is not included in the Dialect Atlas of the Russian Language (DARJa).
The dialects spoken to the north of the Northern Dvina developed from the Old Novgorod dialect of the first Russian settlers, who came in the Middle Ages. Kojda was founded at a later stage, in the 17th century, presumably by people from neighbouring settlements. A large proportion of the present population, however, are descendants of Old Believers from Novgorod.
The main part of the article consists of an enumeration of the main dialectical features of Kojda. These features were found on a tape recording of an 88-year old inhabitant of the village. These dialectal char-acteristics were compared with data from several publications dealing with dialects from the Archangel'sk oblast', in particular with dialects from the Pinega rajon, which is situated near Kojda.
Most features are typical of the Archangel'sk dialects. An exception is the comparatively open pronunciation of the Old Russian jat'. Some data suggest that there are more features which are not typical of all dialects of the Archangel'sk oblast', but further research is needed. My findings suggest that the dialect of Kojda is more similar to the Pinega dialects than might be expected from the literature, though it seems to be less archaic
A contrastive analysis of Russian and Norwegian utterance-initial coordinating conjunctions
No full textIn the study presented here, the three Russian basic additive and contrastive coordinating conjunctions i, a and no were compared to their two Norwegian counterparts og and men when used in utterance-initial position. By means of a direct comparison of sentences from Russian and Norwegian novels and their translations, both differences between the languages and language-internal boundaries between the conjunctions were made apparent. A core meaning was formulated for each of the five conjunctions. Their basic properties account not only for their use in general, but they can also explain certain specific qualities and conditions for pragmatic use in utterance-initial position
Word prosodic structure and vowel reduction in Moscow and Perm Russian
Get PDFCentral Standard Russian is well-known for its vowel reduction in two degrees: the immediately pretonic vowel is much less reduced than vowels in other unstressed positions, both in quality and in quantity, at least when the allophone is a low vowel. This two-degree reduction is expressed clearly in speech from Central Russia, but earlier studies suggest a smaller difference between the degrees in non-central areas. We measured vowel duration and quality of unstressed /a,~o/ in two modern urban Russian varieties: in read speech from 26 adolescents in Moscow (Central Russia) and Perm (Ural region). The Moscow speakers make a sharp distinction between the two degrees in both quantity (duration) and quality (F1), but we found only small, not statistically significant differences in Perm. Perm speech might lack phonological two-degree reduction altogether, in which case two-degree reduction is not a general feature of modern Russian urban speech.publishedVersio
Prosodija govorov Terskogo berega Belogo morja: predvrel'nye nabljudenija
No full textThe present article presents some preliminary results of the study of
some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two
Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently
collected recordings, we observed a number of prosodic characteristics
which are assumed to be typical for Northern Russian. Firstly,
vowels appear to be relatively short. Secondly, it was often rather
difficult to determine the location of the stressed syllables. Thirdly, a
tendency to attach a repeating prosodic pattern to each phonological
word was observed. Finally, many non-question utterances ended in a
rising pitch movement, although the steepness and the height of the Ter
rise appear to be less extreme than in, for instance, some Pinega dialects
of the Archangel’sk oblast’. Interestingly, the second and third characteristics
seem to be closely related. In all but one of the cases with unclear
stress patterns, the first syllable was realised with high pitch,
immediately preceded and followed by low pitch. This seems to be the
result of a tendency to attach a rising-falling pattern to each phonological
word
Advantages and shortcomings of different perspectives in describing Northern Russian dak.
No full textThe word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence initially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions. This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six different perspectives which have been used to describe this unspecified, multifunctional word: descriptions in traditional grammatical terms, in syntactic terminology used for spontaneîus speech, research on its role in information structure, its use in discourse, the role of prosody, and finally comparisons with parallel words in neighbouring and other languages. I conclude that a combination of approaches is required for a better understanding of the way dak functions. Studies in prosody combined with research on dak's role in information structure appear to be most fruitful, and modern theories of discourse structure, which are almost completely ignored at present, could be helpful. Much research remains to be done, especially to clarify the restrictions on the use of the word dak and the way it functions in less obvious contexts
Prosodic Aspects of the Dialects of the Ter Coast of the White Sea: Preliminary Results
No full textThe present article presents some preliminary results of the study of
some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two
Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently
collected recordings, we observed a number of prosodic characteristics
which are assumed to be typical for Northern Russian. Firstly,
vowels appear to be relatively short. Secondly, it was often rather
difficult to determine the location of the stressed syllables. Thirdly, a
tendency to attach a repeating prosodic pattern to each phonological
word was observed. Finally, many non-question utterances ended in a
rising pitch movement, although the steepness and the height of the Ter
rise appear to be less extreme than in, for instance, some Pinega dialects
of the Archangel’sk oblast’. Interestingly, the second and third characteristics
seem to be closely related. In all but one of the cases with unclear
stress patterns, the first syllable was realised with high pitch,
immediately preceded and followed by low pitch. This seems to be the
result of a tendency to attach a rising-falling pattern to each phonological
word
