Like other syntactic elements, affixes are sometimes said to be heads or modifiers. In
Russian, one suffix,-onok, can be either: as a head, it is a size diminutive denoting baby …

Recent work on the acoustic properties of complex words has found that morphological
information may influence the phonetic properties of words, eg acoustic duration. Paradigm …

North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically
simpler analytic construction. Our data (> 2K examples culled from>. 5M words) track this …

Henning Andersen (2012) points out that the Russian “new Vocative”(eg, мам!'mama!',
Саш!'Sasha!') presents a series of unusual behaviors that set it apart from ordinary case …

Although the interrelation of tone and segmental quality is typologically unusual, cases of
vowel-tone interaction have been reported in the literature. The present paper argues that …

The study investigates a series of morphological changes in Russian and Belarusian
dialects provoked by homophony due to vowel reduction. The reaction to potential or actual …

Breathy sonorants are cross-linguistically rare, occurring in just 1% of the languages
indexed in the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (UPSID), and they are …

This article explores the fall and vocalization of the jers, making five claims. First, it is shown
how the jer shift can be analyzed in terms of a trochaic pattern, whereby a jer fell unless it …

This article presents an overview of the last two decades of research in synchronic Slavic
theoretical phonology and the fields it interacts with, such as phonetics, morphology, and …

To avoid potential miscommunication resulting from structural ambiguity, speakers and
listeners often rely on differences in prosodic realization. For instance, the sentence Jennifer …