Refrenų-garsažodžių fonotaktikos ypatumai
Peculiarities of Phonotactics of Onomatopoeic Refrains

Summary/Abstract: Linguists have always had an interest in the vocabulary of a specific peripheral system consisting of interjections and onomatopoeic interjections, incantations and refrains. However, there are not many works dealing with phonetics of refrains of Lithuanian folk songs. Folk song refrains, like other vocabulary, can be divided into different groups: 1) onomatopoeic words; 2) modified notional words; 3) composites. The majority of refrains found in the texts of ,,Lietuvių liaudies dainynas“ (,,Lithuanian folk songbook“) that were researched, belong to the group of onomatopoeic words (90,5 %). Therefore this article researches only this particular group. The aim of this research was to analyse phonotactics of words in onomatopoeic refrains by applying statistical methods. The research led to the following conclusions: The initial sound of words in onomatopoeic refrains can be monomial, binomial or trinomial and the final sound is monomial. The comparison of combinations in the beginning of the syllable of words in onomatopoeic refrains shows that monomial explosion is most frequent (76,4 %). Binomial explosion of words in onomatopoeic refrains is rather rare (3,5 %). Models of syllables of the following structures were found: CCV, C’C’V, CCVC, C’C’VC, CCVv. In onomatopoeic refrain words open syllables prevail. They make up to 89,6 %, closed syllables – 10,4 %. Uncovered syllables occur rather frequently (20,1 %) and their base is usually a diphthong (48,0 %) or a single vowel (42,8 %). Uncovered closed syllables are rare (9,2 %).

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