О возможности использования методов современной диалектологии при сопоставительных исследованиях близкородственных языков (на материале ударного вокализма болгарского, белорусского и русского языков)

The paper discusses for the first time some ways of explicit and intensive application of the theoretical experience accumulated by modern dialectology in the contrastive description of related languages. An attempt is made to prove the theoretical reliability and adequacy of this comparatively young branch of science and the theoretical possibilities it affords for being employed as a conceptual base for contrastive studies. Concrete answers are given to the questions of what in the metalanguage experience of modern dialectology might be useful for contrastive studies and what would such a description be like. Bulgarian, Byelorussian and Russian correspondences in the sphere of stressed vocalism are used to illustrate some of the points.