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Yiddish sociolect in Germany: new socio-phonetic researches (OPEN ACCESS)

Jakovleva E.B.

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Moscow, Russia, jakovlevaemma@mail.ru

Abstract

The article focuses on the phonetic study of the Yiddish sociolect of Yiddish-German bilinguals in Germany in the context of contact linguistics and variantology. A brief overview of the history of the Yiddish language formation is presented, as well as the data on the Yiddish sociolect and discursive communities that use this sociolect in the territory of modern Germany. The article describes the sociophonetic studies of phonostylistic variables of the segment level of the Yiddish sociolect in the groups of discursive Yiddish-German communities: representatives of the religious Jewish community, secular socio-cultural communities of German cities. The results of an experimental phonetic study of the Yiddish sociolect are presented.

Keywords

Yiddish sociolect; Yiddish-German bilingual; discursive community; migrations; phonostilistic variable; sociophonetic experiment

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For citing: Jakovleva E.B. (2021). Yiddish sociolect in Germany: new socio-phonetic researches. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 4(48), pp. 90-102. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2021.04.06


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