Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия

Margje Post; David Pineda

doi:10.15845/slavberg.23

Речь поморов Терского берега Белого моря: Звучащая хрестоматия

Authors

Margje Post

University of Bergen

David Pineda

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15845/slavberg.23

Synopsis

This book contains 30 samples of Pomor dialect speech from the Ter Coast of the White Sea, collected between 1961 and 2006. Publishing biographically and linguistically annotated samples of spontaneous dialect speech from the Ter Coast of the White Sea in both written and audio format, it provides the readers with historical and cultural background information to the recordings and sheds light on a selection of rarely discussed linguistic topics: tense and lax consonants, remnants of the dual number in nominal morphology, prosody, language variation and change, postpositive particles and borrowings from indigenous languages. The texts vary in topic, number of participants, situation and speaking style. It includes interview excerpts, recordings of fairy tales, as well as a spontaneous story.

The audio recordings can be downloaded from the CLARINO Bergen Repository (Kola Peninsula Spoken Corpus (KoPeSC) 1; http://hdl.handle.net/11509/150) in .wav or .mp3 format, together with their time-aligned transcriptions to Standard Russian in ELAN, a freely available software programme that enables a simultaneous reading of the text with its sound (https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan). ELAN also allows searches in multiple files.

The book is written not only for researchers, but also for people interested in listening to how the Pomors tell about their life on the Ter Coast of the White Sea.

By 2025 the KoPeSC corpus will be extended with nine hours of transcribed recordings of this dialect and of other varieties of Russian spoken on the Kola Peninsula.

Author Biographies

Margje Post, University of Bergen

Margje Post is Associate Professor of Russian Linguistics at the University of Bergen. She holds an MA in both Slavic and Scandinavian Languages from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD (dr. art.) from the University of Tromsø, with a thesis on Russian dialectology. She is co-editor of Sentence-Final Particles: Current Views and Issues (De Gruyter, 2015) and the author of publications on Russian dialects, pragmatic markers, corpus linguistics and prosody in Russian regional varieties.

David Pineda

David Pineda has conducted research on early East Slavic, Russian dialects and Russian-Sámi code-switching and language contact. He has taught Russian and Russian linguistics at the universities of Amsterdam, Tromsø and Bergen.