On the phonology of the North-Eastern dialect area in the period of Late Middle Hungarian, based on Krisztina Barkóczy’s letters
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.1.59Keywords:
historical dialectology, historical linguistics, Middle Hungarian period, North- Eastern dialect region, phonological propertiesAbstract
This paper explores phonological phenomena of the North-Eastern dialect area in the period of Middle Hungarian, on the basis of Krisztina Barkóczy’s letters to her husband, General Sándor Károlyi between 1698 and 1711. Krisztina Barkóczy (1670–1724) lived in Ugocsa and Bereg Counties, and later in the Károlyi estates in Szatmár County. The texts follow the literary norms of the period but they also reflect contemporary spoken Hungarian. From them, we get a taste of the major phonological properties of the dialect of the region: its preference for close vowels, the extended distribution of /iː/ and /o/, the use of /ø/ in inflected forms of /s/~/v/-stem verbs, the preference for palatal sonorants (/n/ > /ɲ/, /l/ > /ʎ/), the gemination of /l/, /ʎ/, /ʃ/, and the frequent occurrence of consonant shortening.
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