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Continuity or Discontinuity – the Case of Macedonian Phonetics

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Continuity or Discontinuity – the Case of Macedonian PhoneticsThe article presents its principal topic of the continuity of linguistic phenomena based on the material of Macedonian phonetics, treated as a constituent of south-east European phonetics, and not as an element of the Slavic world. It provides, firstly, a static perspective, produced by enumerating typologically relevant features. Seen from this perspective, Macedonian phonetics is a component of the Central Balkanic area. Secondly, emphasis has been put on processes of phonetic convergence and their differences from those of grammatical convergence. These difference account for the instability of phonetic features, or in any case their generally lesser stability compared to morphosyntactic features, but on the other hand also for the possibility for some phenomena to survive in small areas, in a few dialects, and the possibility for linguistic features to reappear, which stems from alternating cross-dialectal interference. The Macedonian language territory abounds in such situations due to its multi-ethnicity, which is greater here than anywhere else in the Balkans. Particular in this respect is the area of Aegean Macedonia, where Slavic dialects are “protected” from the influence of the literary norm – albeit in the case of Macedonian even the realisation of the literary norm is not entirely stable in terms of phonetics.Ciaglosc czy jej brak – casus macedonskiej fonetykiNadrzedny temat dotyczacy ciaglosci zjawisk przedstawiony zostal na materiale macedonskiej fonetyki. Fonetyka macedonska zostala rozpatrzona jako skladnik fonetyki Europy poludniowo-wschodniej, a nie jako element swiata slowianskiego. Przedstawiono, po pierwsze, obraz statyczny, wynikajacy z wyliczania relewantnych typologicznie cech. Ten obraz klasyfikuje fonetyke macedonska jako skladnik centralnego obszaru balkanskiego. Po drugie, polozono akcent na przebieg procesów konwergencyjnych w zakresie fonetyki i na róznice w stosunku do takich procesów w zakresie gramatyki. Wynika z nich: nietrwalosc cech fonetycznych, a w kazdym razie ogólnie mniejsza trwalosc cech fonetycznych niz cech morfo-skladniowych, ale tez mozliwosc przetrwania pewnych zjawisk na malych obszarach, w paru gwarach, mozliwosc powracania cech fonetycznych, co wynika z naprzemiennej interferencji miedzydialektalnej. Terytorium jezyka macedonskiego obfituje w takie sytuacje ze wzgledu na wieksza multietnicznosc niz gdziekolwiek indziej na Balkanach. Szczególny pod tym wzgledem jest obszar Macedonii Egejskiej, gdzie dialekty slowianskie sa „zabezpieczone” przed dzialaniem normy literackiej. Chociaz w wypadku jezyka macedonskiego nawet realizacja normy literackiej pod wzgledem fonetycznym nie jest calkiem stabilna.

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