{"id":22,"date":"2022-11-17T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T20:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/home\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T09:17:28","slug":"prosody","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h1>Studying the prosody of the<\/h1><h1><span style=\"color: #2A83F9\">&nbsp; Finnic<\/span> languages of <span style=\"color: #800000\">Latvia<\/span>.<\/h1><h1><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fields near the former site of the Lutsi villlage of D\u01d6naburi in the eastern Nirza Lutsi region.<br>(Photo: Uldis Balodis; D\u01d6naburi (Dinaburski), Latvia, 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2>What are the Southernmost Finnic languages?<br><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Southernmost Finnic languages are Livonian, South Estonian \u2013 in Estonia as well as its language island varieties in Latvia and Russia, and Krevin Votic. The Southernmost Finnic varieties at the \nfocus of this project are four languages historically spoken in Latvia: the two documented varieties of Livonian \u2013 \nCourland and Salaca Livonian \u2013 and the two South Estonian language \nisland varieties spoken in Latvia \u2013 Leivu and Lutsi. <\/p>\n<h2>The goals of the Southernmost Finnic Prosody Project:<br><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Southernmost Finnic Prosody Project is a project at the University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, which aims to generate a comprehensive description of the \nprosodic structures of the Southernmost Finnic languages in their areal \ncontext.&nbsp; Realisation of \ncomplex prosodic phenomena \u2013 quantity alternations, tonal contrasts, and\n intonation \u2013 will be observed on different linguistic levels. For this \npurpose, the project is using both qualitative and quantitative methods of \nacoustic phonetics and phonology. The study of Latvian influence on \nSouthern Finnic prosody (e.g., st\u00f8d or broken tone \u2013 a prosodic feature found in Latvian and all Southernmost Finnic varieties spoken in Latvia but not in other Finnic languages) will provide new information on the results of \nBaltic and Finnic language contact. This project initiates a new phase in \nthe study of the Southernmost Finnic languages \u2013 a systematic analysis \nof interaction between prosodic phenomena in authentic speech corpora.<\/p>\n<h2>Our project team:<br><\/h2>\n<u>Principal Investigator<\/u>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/CV\/Karl_Pajusalu\/eng\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl Pajusalu<\/a> (University of Tartu)\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><u>Researchers<\/u>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/CV\/Uldis%20Ivars%20Janis_Balodis\/eng\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uldis Balodis<\/a> (University of Tartu, University of Latvia Livonian Institute), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/CV\/Pire_Teras\/eng\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pire Teras<\/a> (University of Tartu), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/CV\/Tuuli_Tuisk\/eng\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuuli Tuisk<\/a> (University of Tartu, University of Copenhagen, University of Latvia), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etis.ee\/CV\/Nele_Salveste\/eng\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nele Ots<\/a>, Janek Vaab (University of Tartu).<br><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lutsimaa.lv\/prosody\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}