Experimental Study of Palatalized vs. Velarized Consonants Followed by "E" in Loanwords

Student: Bondarenko Kristina

Supervisor: Nina Dobrushina

Educational Programme: Language Theory and Computational Linguistics (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2017

This paper studies sociophonetic variation of palatalized vs. non-palatalized consonants followed by [e] in Russian. It is shown that the choice of palatalized vs. non-palatalized consonants depends on the age of loanwords and the type of consonants followed by [e].

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