Born to repair: Emergence of syllabic consonants in Czech

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ZIKOVÁ Markéta BŘEZINA Martin KOSEK Pavel ČECH Radek

Year of publication 2024
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The paper examines changes in the prosodic structure of liquids in Czech. We argue that the process of liquid resyllabification, documented in historical Czech, is an instance of a more general diachronic principle which involves a shift from marked forms to unmarked forms.
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