Pietų žemaičių raseiniškių žodžio galo minkštieji priebalsiai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Galūnė; Minkštasis priebalsis; Minkštieji ir kietieji priebalsiai; Šiauriniai pietų žemaičiai raseiniškiai; Žemaičių raseiniškių patarmė; Žodžio galas; Flexions; Hard and soft consonants; Lithuanian; Northern South Samogitians of Raseiniai; Samogitian subdialect of raseiniai; Soft consonant; Word end.

ENIn some cases flexions in the dialect of south Samogitians, which are never stressed, may lose short vowels. Vowels are lost in masculine gender nominal nouns with the stem (i)a and in third person flexions of verbs that correspond to the (i)a stem of verbs of literary language. Consonants that precede such vowels, which occur at the end of the word due to phonetic shortening may be both soft and hard. Soft consonants are pronounced if the closed flexion has dropped the front vowel and pronunciation is various when the short open flexion front vowel of the 3 person of present tense verb is dropped. Frequently when the front vowel is dropped, the softness of / and sometimes r is retained. Other consonants are pronounced hard, i.e., this position neutralises soft : hard opposition of certain consonants. Dropping of the front vowel in the dialect of south Samogitians of Raseiniai resulted not only in phonetic, but also in morphological changes in the end of a verb stem: 1) in Eastern suddialects i stem paradigm has changed into the more productive ia stem, 2) in Northern dialects where third person forms are usually pronounced with a hard word-end consonant, the hard stem-end consonant has entered all other forms - present tense i and ia stem verbs became a stem forms. [From the publication]

• Kalbotyros darbai / Aleksas Girdenis. Vilnius : Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2000-2001. 3 t.
• Lietuvių kalbos tarmių morfoneminiai reiškiniai / Vytautas Vitkauskas. Vilnius : Žara, 2001. 262 p.