Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory
β Scribed by Christina Y. Bethin
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 366
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 86
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Slavic Prosody is about the Slavic languages and how they changed over time, especially in their syllable structure and accent patterns. This is not a traditional comparative grammar but rather a discussion of selected problems in Slavic and how they relate to contemporary linguistic theory.
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