Prienų šnektos izoliuotieji ir rišliosios kalbos balsiai: akustiniai ir artikuliaciniai požymiai
Acoustic and articulatory features of vowels of the subdialect of Prienai pronounced both in isolation and in sentences

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the main acoustic and articulatory features of vowels of the subdialect of Prienai pronounced both in isolation and sentences. Isolated vowels differ from those articulated in a natural flow of speech in the subdialect of Prienai, yet the vowel interrelations remain unchanged. The acoustic and articulatory features of the majority of sounds pronounced in isolation are more prominent in comparison with the respective sounds pronounced in sentences. The performed comparison between spectral characteristics of isolated vowels of the subdialect of Prienai and those of cardinal vowels by Daniel J ones allows stating that some of isolated vowels of the subdialect of Prienai should be contrasted with the primary vowels. Having compared qualitative features of isolated sounds from the Southern Aukštaitian Kučiūnai subdialect, the subdialect of Pašušvys of the Western Aukštaitian Šiauliai dialect, the Northern Kaunas Lukšiai subdialect, the Svirkai subdialect of the Eastern Aukštaitian Vilnius dialect, the Eržvilkas subdialect of the Southern Samogitian Raseiniai dialect, the Akmenė subdialct of the Northern Samogitian Telšiai dialect and the Eastern Kaunas Prienai subdialect, it was noticed that isolated vowels in the subdialect of Prienai are least deviated from their counterpart sounds by D. J ones.

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