Ongoing vowel shortening in vanishing Soikkola Ingrian: challenges for description, codification, and typology

Natalia Kuznetsova, Elena Markus

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Abstract

The vanishing Soikkola dialect of Ingrian (Finnic; Uralic) manifests an ongoing shortening of second syllable unstressed long vowels (V2) in trisyllables. Our major acoustic study [1] showed that the original phonological contrast of long and short V2 is currently in a state of fine-grained continuum from contrast maintenance to complete merger, depending on the structure. Structural variation is aggravated by considerable interspeaker variability, addresed in this paper. Out of the five studied speakers, three were innovative and two conservative as regards long V2 shortening. Speakers do not communicate in the language any longer, which affects the natural curve of sound changes. Moreover, this particular sound change is likely never to be completed due to imminent language loss. Unfinished long V2 shortening with its high interspeaker variability creates challenges for the development of practical transcription, needed for language description, codification, and teaching, and for the typological placement of the rare ternary quantity contrast of consonants attested in Soikkola Ingrian.
Lingua originaleEnglish
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 23-26 May, 2022
Pagine327-331
Numero di pagine5
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2022
EventoInternational Conference on Speech Prosody - Lisbon, Portugal
Durata: 23 mag 202226 mag 2022

Serie di pubblicazioni

NomeSPEECH PROSODY

Convegno

ConvegnoInternational Conference on Speech Prosody
CittàLisbon, Portugal
Periodo23/5/2226/5/22

Keywords

  • Soikkola Ingrian
  • Finnic
  • vowel shortening
  • phonological typology
  • language loss
  • language revival
  • interspeaker variability

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