RÓŻNICE POKOLENIOWE W WYMOWIE SAMOGŁOSKI A NA KURPIACH
Generational differences in the pronunciation of the vowel a in Kurpie dialect

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide a phonetic specifi cation of the stressed vowel a in the contexts of hard consonants which are pronounced by fi ve women from Kurpie region. For the purpose of analysing the material, the acoustic phonetics methodology was applied. The dialectal vowel pronunciation in the respondents was shown against the vowels of the standard Polish language. The analysis took the target frequency of the fi rst and second formants into account. The measurements were carried out using Praat program. The analyses enabled the conclusion that the dialectal vowel á is pronounced only by the oldest group of the women, while the tendency for more front pronunciation of the vowel a was noticed in all respondents.

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