Quality reduction in official colloquial language

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The article studies the phenomenon quality reduction which is becoming a phonetic norm in Bulgarian official colloquial language mostly under the influence of dialects without excluding the colloquial communicative act as a factor of further influence. After pointing out the modern notion about the official pronunciation of unstressed vowels, the specific nature of quality reduction in official colloquial language is revealed and it is expressed in the following tendencies: — the three correlative pairs [а-ъ], [о-у] and [е-и] are subject to reduction but to a different degree; — greater variability in quality reduction is observed; — the unaccented vocative form is subject to modifications; — quality reduction is activated mostly in lexemes of high frequency; — reduction affects accented vowels as well under certain conditions. It is pointed out at the end of the study that quality reduction is characteristic of oral public language as well but with a lower frequency of registered examples.

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official colloquial language, codified official language, oral public language, variability of standard, full quality reduction, incomplete quality reduction

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