Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic - Janina Mołczanow
East Slavic Metrical System
Interactions of Vowel Quality and Prosody in East Slavic - Janina Mołczanow
Janina Mołczanow [+]
University of Warsaw
Janina Mołczanow is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw.
Description
This chapter presents the most important facts concerning East Slavic metrical system. It lays out the main assumptions concerning the formal representation of lexical stress and outlines an account of the Russian metrical system in terms of OT. The chapter also looks at different rhythmic patterns which are present in dialects with vowel reduction and develops a model of metrical structure for these systems.