National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Velar palatalisation in Common Slavic: evidence from the Kryvorivnja dialect of Ukrainian

Abstract This article revisits a mechanism of the first two primary palatalisations of velar stops before unrounded front vowels and in the clusters *ki̯ and *gi̯ in Common Slavic. I ground the discussion in the analysis of the new acoustic data from Kryvorivnja (Southeast Hutsul...