STRESSED VOWELS OF SOUTH RUSSIAN DIALECTS WITH NON-ARCHAIC TYPES OF DISSIMILATIVE VOCALISM (QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTIC)

The article presents an instrumental study of the stressed vowels of two dialects of the Belgorod region with diff erent types of dissimilative vocalism: both are characterized by the Zhizdrinskoye akanye, in one of them there is a Sudzhansky yakanye (Berezovka village), in the second — Shchigrovskoe yakanye (Prisynok village). The analysis of audio shows that in the two dialects under consideration there is no distinction between the phonemes of upper-middle and middle elevations, that is, the distribution of [a] or [i] in pre-stressed syllables is not directly related to the quality of the stressed vowel. The system of stressed vowels of these two dialects is similar, there are features characteristic of some dialects with archaic types of vocalism: averaged vowels (in a dialect with Shchigrovsky yakanye), vowels of reduced formation (in both dialects in place of upper and middle vowels, in a dialect with Sudzhansky yakanye and in place of lower vowels). Consonants are pronounced softly before vowels of the front row (vowels after soft consonants are represented by diphthongs or have a pronounced initial transitional element after a soft consonant); vowels implementing the phoneme /o/ have an initial transitional element, and can also be represented by a diphthong [уo] — as a rule, after labial and posterior consonants. The set of words in which deviations from the general model of vocalism are recorded is due to grammatical ones.