Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the voicing of the phoneme /v/ in modern
spoken Macedonian. The phoneme /v/ in the standard Macedonian language is
classifi ed as a fricative, but some of its characteristics separate it from the other
phonemes in this group. This is due to the fact that this phoneme was once
a sonorant. In a part of the Macedonian dialects this phoneme is pronounced with
marked voicing to this day. This phenomenon is then refl ected in the pronunciation
of standard Macedonian. Our analysis is based on a selected corpus of examples
that have been spoken by speakers from various dialect origins, in order to assess
the any differences in pronouncing of the phoneme /v/ when placed in different
phoneme contexts in the word.
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