A Dialect Audiobook from the Váh–Hron Interfluve Region in Slovakia—Preparatory Works Cover Image

Nyelvjárási hangoskönyv a szlovákiai Vág és Garam közi régióból – előkészítő munkálatok
A Dialect Audiobook from the Váh–Hron Interfluve Region in Slovakia—Preparatory Works

Author(s): Tünde Szendi
Subject(s): Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: dialect audiobook; computational dialectology; Hungarian dialects in Slovakia; dialect phenomena; Váh–Hron interfluve region; Vág–Garam interfluve region

Summary/Abstract: This study has two primary objectives: to provide an overview of the research related to my doctoral studies and to present the preparatory works completed to date. In the first section, I describe the research methods—specifically computational dialectology and the concept of the dialect audiobook—as well as the linguistic corpus containing life-history interviews. The second section discusses the Váh–Hron interfluve (the region between the rivers Váh and Hron), to which the texts in the corpus are linked. The third part lists the linguistic literature dealing with the dialects of this region, while the fourth section characterizes the Váh–Hron Hungarian dialect itself. The fifth section details the dialect's primary phonetic phenomena. In the sixth part, I examine the specific dialectal features analyzed during the preparatory phase of the research: the occurrence of the illabial short ȧ, the appearance of closed í-ing (í-zés), and the associative closed o-ing following the vowel á. These phenomena are illustrated through audio and text samples, followed by a summary of the observations. In the final, seventh section, I outline the subsequent steps for continuing the research. The paper concludes with a comprehensive list of references.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2026
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 153-174
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian
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