title: Lip spreading, not lip rounding
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metadata.value: Andronov, Aleksey V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T14:40:08Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T14:40:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Andronov A. V. Lip spreading, not lip rounding. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2020, 17 (4): 543–556.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2020.403
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/25090
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the issue of detecting classificatory features of phonemes. Unlike phonetic
  characteristics of phoneme realisations, which are explored instrumentally, phonological
  features should be discovered by means of functional analysis. Due to their role as exponents
  of meaningful units, phonemes are grouped according to their morphophonological behaviour.
  Here, detecting phonological features is illustrated by the analysis of the vocalic systems
  of Russian, Latvian and Finnish. The ‘lip rounding’ feature traditionally used in descriptions of
  these languages has no functional grounds and should be considered as an incorrect substitution
  of an articulatory characteristic for a phonological feature. However, apart from ‘height’
  and ‘backness’, another feature should be postulated. For this feature the articulatory-based
  term ‘lip spreading’ is proposed. In Russian, the spread vowels /e/, /i/, /ɨ/ are distinguished due to their sensibility (primarily in morphophonological alternations) to the correlative feature
  of softness-hardness of the preceding consonant. Non-spread vowels /a/, /o/, /u/ are indifferent
  to the softness-hardness of the preceding consonant. Thus, /a/ is grouped not with /e/, /i/,
  /ɨ/ (as non-rounded in traditional models), but with /o/ and /u/ (no separate group of these
  two “rounded” phonemes, /o/ and /u/, exists). In Latvian, the spread phonemes /i/, /e/, /i:/, /e:/,
  /i͡ e/ determine the choice of the closed vowels /e/ and /ē/ (instead of open /æ/ and /æ:/) in the
  preceding syllable. It is worthwhile to differentiate front vowels (according to lip spreading),
  not the back ones (according to lip rounding). In Finnish, the distinguishing of spread /i/ and
  /e/ is based on their relation with the fundamental peculiarity of the exponent of a word form,
  vowel harmony. These phonemes themselves do not participate in harmony alternation and
  they determine front vocalism of affixes only when other, non-spread phonemes are lacking.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 17; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: phonological features
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vowel systems
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latvian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finnish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Lip spreading, not lip rounding
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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