Specific prosodic features of the contemporary Belarusian subdialects

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of distinctive prosodic features of five Belarusian subdialects. The conducted experiment proves that regionally marked speech has its peculiar suprasegmental characteristics, especially on the melodic level. The analysis shows that each of the studied subdialects can be distinguished by the most typical pitch contours and the quantitative distribution of different types of nuclear tones in non-final intonation groups.