Lietuvių patarmių transkripcija TFA simboliais: vakarų aukštaičiai šiauliškiai
Transcription of Lithuanian Dialects by IPA Symbols: the Western Aukštaitian Subdialect of Šiauliai

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the opportunities for the application of the latest version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to the transcription of the Western Aukštaitian subdialect of Šiauliai. Until now dialectal sounds were usually transcribed in Lithuanian dialectology using the so called Copenhagen Transcription that was adapted by Georg Gerullis at the beginning of the 20th century. With the arrival of new fields in dialectology in the early 21st century, the need for contemporary IPA strengthened, resulting in a pilot set of IPA symbols compiled by the dialectologists of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language in 2016. It is now being “tested” on the peculiar features of all subdialects. The article presents the equivalents of the IPA symbols and the Copenhagen Transcription recorded by the Palemonas font. The main part analyses the examples of the subdialect of Šiauliai transcribed by IPA symbols from two different residential points – Ažytėnai belonging to the southern part of the subdialect and Šakyna located in the north, next to the area of Samogitians.

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