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The origin of nasality in Macedonian dialects
Author(s) -
Irena Sawicka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vilnius university open series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2669-0535
DOI - 10.15388/sbol.2021.18
Subject(s) - macedonian , nasality , slavic languages , phonetics , linguistics , bulgarian , nasal vowel , history , vowel , philosophy
There is general consensus that the southern Macedonian dialects have partially retained the Proto-Slavic nasal vowels, and that the preservation was favoured by local Greek phonetics. There was, however, an additional source of (non-etymological) nasality in Macedonian – the Greek pre-nasalisation of stops. In the article, I would like to re-examine this issue in terms of the hypothesis that the source of nasality in Macedonian dialects was not the old nasal vowels, but the Greek pre-nasalisation of stops.

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