THE DEVELOPMENT OF AKANJE IN RUSSIAN: NEW DATA

Sergey Kniazev & Evgeny Shaulskiy
Moscow State Lomonosov University

ID 1211
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Paper deals with the problem of the historical development of unstressed vowel systems in Russian. A phonetic explanation for the development of all existing types is suggested on the basis of a hypothesis that assumes the priority of the non-dissimilative type. A new, probably most archaic, type of unstressed vowel system in Russian is shown to provide another argument in favour of the suggested explanation.