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La nasalité vocalique en fran{\c c}ais et en bulgare: problème phonétique et phonologique

TitleLa nasalité vocalique en fran{\c c}ais et en bulgare: problème phonétique et phonologique
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1982
AuthorsNikolov, B
JournalСъпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics
Volume7
Pagination122–129
KeywordsContrastive Studies; съпоставителни изследвания
Abstract

The article is a contrastive study of nasalization in the following combination: vowel + n + fricative. It is established that in this combination the vowels are nasalized to almost the same degree in French and Bulgarian. The reason for that is the elimination of the feature occlusiveness of the n consonant in the two languages. However, whereas this phenomenon has led to phonologization of the nasal vowels in French, in Bulgarian reasons of morphosyntactic and semantic nature have prevented the nasalized vowels from becoming independent phonemes.

Citation KeyNikolov1982