BILL J. DARDEN
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2023.2.122.129
Author's coordinates: University of Chicago, Departments of Slavic Languages and Linguistics 5801 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, USA
11505 Cedar Lane, Ashland, VA 23005, USA
Email: bdarden@uchicago.edu
ON DISSIMILATIVE JAKAN’E IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS
(Abstract)
Dissimilative jakan’e in SW Russian dialects applies to nonhigh vowels in pretonic position. One finds /i/ before accented low vowels, /a/ before accented high vowels. We can explain the phenomenon without dissimilation. There is vowel reduction (shortening) before lower relatively longer accented vowels, followed by a change of the reduced vowel to /i/ after a palatalized consonant. All these dialects originally had seven vowels, four vowel heights. There is significant dialectal variation in the treatment of the nonhigh vowel before accented mid vowels and the influence of surrounding palatalized consonants. To account for all the variants, we must start from an early stage when there was continuous gradient of duration in the pretonic vowel, negatively correlated with the duration of the accented vowel.
Keywords: Russian, dialects, dissimilation, unnatural, history.
Cuvinte-cheie: limba rusă, dialecte, disimilare, nenatural, istorie.
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