Dalia Kiseliūnaitė. The Kursenieku language on the Curonian Spit: Part 1. Phonetics and phonology

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Dalia Kiseliūnaitė. The Kursenieku language on the Curonian Spit: Part 1. Phonetics and phonology
Monograph. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2022. doi.org/10.35321/e-pub.41.kursininku-kalba-I-dalis.

The monograph describes the phonetics and phonology of the Baltic geolect – the Kursenieku language of the Curonian Spit. The first part introduces the history of the emergence of this geolect, its’ sociolinguistic characteristics, the most important research and documentation, and analyses the reasons for its extinction. The second part of the study is based on audio recordings and written sources, and explores the phonetics and phonology of the geolect at the synchronic, diachronic, sociolinguistic and ethnolinguistic levels. The appendices contain several fragments of transcribed audio texts. The electronic version of the book contains links that connect the examples in the text with the corresponding audio files in the appendices.