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Backing of Front Vowels in Post-Common Slavic Dialects
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Backing of front vowels refers to the change whereby Common Slavic front vowels *
i,
*e,
*ě,
*
ь, and
*ę transformed into non-front vowels in some Slavic languages. Only positionally conditioned changes are taken into consideration, i.e., when the backing requires a specific context that causes the change. Unconditioned changes, such as *
ę > a in Russian, or nearly unconditioned ones, such as
*i >
y in Ukrainian, are not discussed. The processes of the backing of front vowels (also known as umlauts) are described collectively, according to the area in which…
Date:
2024-01-23
