Dialects

What you’ll learn

1. Relate "⁠бял — бел⁠" to a historical sound and distinguish a dialect map from a standard-language rule.
2. Distinguish a local dialect, urban speech and choices made for a particular listener.
3. Interpret the three-way article distinction in some Rhodope dialects without generalising to the whole region.
4. Explain vowel reduction and compare Danube recordings without confusing east and west.
5. Analyse how a dialect detail creates a voice and what editing may lose.
6. Support a hypothesis with several features and state its limits.