@article {Nikolov1990, title = {Quelques diff{\'e}rences typiques entre le syst{\`e}me phon{\'e}tique du fran{\c c}ais et du bulgare}, journal = {Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics}, volume = {15}, year = {1990}, pages = {72{\textendash}76}, abstract = {

A generalized contrastive analysis of the French and the Bulgarian phonetic systems is made, with a focus on vowels. Some basic articulatory and structural differences are established. While contemporary French features a comparatively tense, primarily front and markedly labial way of articulation of vowels, Bulgarian features a comparatively loose, primarily back and non-labial way of articulation. In contrast to French, where nasal vowels function as separate phonemes, the nasalized vowels in Bulgarian are to be viewed as positional variants of the corresponding oral vowels. Along with these peculiarities, the difference between the accent patterns of the two languages is pointed out.

}, keywords = {Contrastive Studies, съпоставителни изследвания}, author = {Bo{\v z}il Nikolov} } @article {Nikolov1982, title = {La nasalit{\'e} vocalique en fran{\c c}ais et en bulgare: probl{\`e}me phon{\'e}tique et phonologique}, journal = {Съпоставително езикознание / Сопоставительное языкознание / Contrastive linguistics}, volume = {7}, year = {1982}, pages = {122{\textendash}129}, abstract = {

The article is a contrastive study of nasalization in the following combination: vowel + n + fricative. It is established that in this combination the vowels are nasalized to almost the same degree in French and Bulgarian. The reason for that is the elimination of the feature occlusiveness of the n consonant in the two languages. However, whereas this phenomenon has led to phonologization of the nasal vowels in French, in Bulgarian reasons of morphosyntactic and semantic nature have prevented the nasalized vowels from becoming independent phonemes.

}, keywords = {Contrastive Studies, съпоставителни изследвания}, author = {Nikolov, Bojil} }