The dissertation discusses the speech of Novo mesto from the phonological point of view. The speech belongs to the Lower Carniola dialect group, specifically to the eastern subgroup of the Lower Carniola dialect group. As Novo mesto has been a city od much significance in Lower Carniola throughout history, many people had immigrated there from various dialectal and foreign language areas. In the theoretical part, I wrote a history overview of Novo mesto and how different factors, e.g. education, family, environment, and migration influenced the evolution of the speech. In the empirical part of the dissertation, I analysed the speech of 14 informants, whom I classified by generation and also arranged the elder generation further into which parish they belong to. In the speech of each informant, from the synchronic point of view and in comparison with the standard language, I firstly analysed long accented vowels, short accented and unaccented vowels, sonorants, obstruents, and any exceptions related to morphology and accent that may have occurred in the text. Based on the analysis, I found phonological variables and their variants. Finally, I wrote a diachronic overview, where the basic characteristics of Novo mesto speech are evident when compared with the surrounding rural speech.
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