Title of the article:

THE POSITION OF PHONEME [ľ] IN THE CONSONANT SYSTEM OF THE SLOVAK LITERARY LANGUAGE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s):

Konstantin V. Lifanov 

Information about the author/authors

Konstantin V. Lifanov — DSc in Philology, Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory 1, bld 51, 119992 Moscow, Russia. Е-mail: lifanov@hotmail.com

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2017

Volume

Vol. 46

Pages

Pp. 94-102

Received

June 07, 2017

Date of publication

December 15, 2017

Index UDK

811.81'342

Index BBK

81.2-1

Abstract

The article deals with one of the most problematic issues of the Slovak orthoepy — pronunciation of palatal ľ. This problem stems from the fact that the sound is usually absent in West Slovak dialect, as well as in the speech of many cities of Central Slovakia. Codifiers of the Slovak literary language had different point of view on the sound. At present, there is a special position of the sound l before vowels e and i and i-shaped diphthongs, because the majority of Slovaks do not pronounce palatal ľ. This, however, makes the positions of the phoneme [ľ] vulnerable, which in contrast to other paired palatal consonants does not appear here. Another weakness of this phoneme is due to the fact, that nouns ending in -l have declination in accordance with the nouns ending palatal consonants.

Keywords

Slovak literary language, codification, dialects, consonant system, sound, phoneme, deviation.

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