Phonic Convergence in Estonian Yiddish

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17823964
AutoresAnna Verschik (0000-0003-3989-0146, Tallinn University, autor de correspondencia), Karl Pajusalu (0000-0001-5554-5049, Institute of the Estonian Language)
Año2023
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas44-63
Fecha de publicación2023-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-bja10029
OpenAlexW4381514805
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas10

Multilingualism is a characteristic feature of Yiddish speakers in the Baltic region, and contact-induced language change is natural in this case. To date, some Baltic German impact on the local varieties of Yiddish has been discussed in the literature. This article focuses on the phonic impact of Estonian on Estonian Yiddish. The study is based on acoustic analysis of Estonian Yiddish sound recordings. The North Baltic area forms a separate region in the Baltic Sprachbund; Yiddish spoken in Samogitia and Courland as well as Estonian Yiddish exhibit several features typical of this language area. It is demonstrated that there is an overlap of basic prosodic categories with co-territorial languages, such as centralized stress and a quantity opposition. A distinctive feature common to Estonian and Estonian Yiddish is the limited reduction of vowels and a tendency to maintain stable durational ratios of the primary stressed syllable and following unstressed syllables

Estonian · German · Judaism · Latvian · Linguistics · Speech recognition · Syllable · Yiddish · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis