One for All and All Four One: Yers and Nasals in Rodopi Dialects
One for All and All Four One: Yers and Nasals in Rodopi Dialects

Summary/Abstract: The paper observes one of the phonological features – the merger of the four Late Common Slavic (or early Old Bulgarian) vowels, the two yers ъ and ь, and the two nasals о and e, into a single reflex. The purpose of the present paper is to suggest an alternative explanation of the development of the vocalic systems of the Rodopi dialects and, perhaps, other Bulgarian dialects as well. This explanation represents preliminary results of a re-examination of the development of Rodopi vocalization in light of the broad typological studies of the past ten to fifteen years.

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