Akanye
Template:Short description Template:IPA notice Akanye or akanje[1] (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".), literally "a-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes Script error: No such module "IPA". or Script error: No such module "IPA". are realized as more or less close to Template:IPAblink. It is a case of vowel reduction.
The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pronounced but not represented orthographically in the standard language). Akanye also occurs in:
- Standard Belarusian (represented orthographically)
- Northern (Polissian and Slobozhan) Ukrainian dialects
- Slovene dialects (e.g., Lower Carniolan dialects),[2]
- Some subgroups of the Kajkavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian[3]
- Bulgarian dialects (e.g., the Rhodope dialects, including the Smolyan dialect).[4]
- Polish dialects (Podlasie, Kresy)[5]
Description
In Belarusian аканне (akanne), both non-softened and softened Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". and other phonemes phonetically merge into Template:IPAblink in unstressed positions; see Belarusian phonology.
In Russian а́канье (akan'ye) (except for Northern dialects), Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". phonetically merge in unstressed positions. If not preceded by a palatalized (soft) consonant, these phonemes give Template:IPAblink (sometimes also transcribed as Script error: No such module "IPA".) in the syllable immediately before the stress[6] and in absolute word-initial position.[7] In other unstressed locations, non-softened Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". are further reduced towards a short, poorly enunciated Template:IPAblink.[8] The phonemic dialectal feature of clear distinction of the unstressed o (i.e., no reduction) is called Template:Ill (Template:Langx), literally "o-ing".
After soft consonants, unstressed Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". are pronounced like Template:IPAblink in most varieties of Russian (see vowel reduction in Russian for details); this reduction is not considered a manifestation of akanye. Unlike Belarusian akanne, Russian akanye does not affect softened vowels.
In Slovene, akanje may be partial (affecting only syllables before or after the stressed vowel) or complete (affecting all vowels in a word).[2] Examples from various Slovene dialects: domú → damú 'at home' (pretonic o),[2] dnò → dnà 'bottom' (tonic o),[9] léto → líəta (posttonic o),[9] ne vém → na vém 'I don't know' (pretonic e),[2] hléb → hlàb 'loaf' (tonic e),[9] jêčmen → jèčman 'barley' (posttonic e).[9]
See also
- Vowel reduction in Russian – about ikanye.
Notes
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- ↑ Bethin, Christina Yurkiw. 1998. Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 152 ff.
- ↑ a b c d Toporišič, Jože. 1992. Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 2.
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- ↑ Crosswhite, Katherine. 2001. Vowel reduction in optimality theory. London: Routledge, p. 53.
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- ↑ a b c d Ramovš, Fran. 1936. Kratka zgodovina slovenskega jezika. I. Ljubljana: Akademska založba, pp. 233–235.
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