The Even Yearbook 4 (2000)

volume: 4 (2000)
pages: 19–37
author: László Kristó
title: Palatality Harmony in Proto-Slavonic
abstract: The paper discusses one of the most salient features of Slavonic history, which I call Palatality Harmony (PH). This constraint manifests itself in two processes: first, velar consonants are palatalized before front vowels; second, back vowels are fronted after (alveo-)palatal consonants. There are, however, apparent exceptions to PH, the most important of which is that high back rounded vowels fail to be fronted after (alveo-)palatal consonants. In this essay, I analyze PH in terms of Licensing and Structure Preservation, adopting the view of Government Phonology on the internal makeup of segments. Providing an appropriate ranking of constraints, I account for the apparent irregularities, showing that they follow from PH constraints being lower ranked than other principles (most notably, Structure Preservation). In the final section of the paper, I discuss the controversial status of PH as a synchronic regularity in Late Proto-Slavonic.
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@article{even00kr,
  author  = {László Kristó},
  title   = {Palatality {H}armony in {P}roto-{S}lavonic},
  year    = 2000,
  journal = {The Even Yearbook},
  volume  = 4,
  pages   = {19–37},
  url     = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/00kr}
}
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Kristó, László. 2000. Palatality Harmony in Proto-Slavonic. The Even Yearbook 4: 19–37. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/00kr