Open AccessChapter 12. Phonology: From Old Rusian to Modern Russian
Author(s) -
Tore Nesset
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
septentrio educational
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2464-1464
DOI - 10.7557/8.3502
Subject(s) - span (engineering) , style (visual arts) , phonology , linguistics , humanities , mathematics , arithmetic , art , philosophy , literature , civil engineering , engineering
Why does Modern Russian have mobile vowels, such as /o/ in сон ‘dream’, which disappear in inflected forms such as the genitive singular сна? Why can the letters к, г, х be followed by и, but not ы? Why is род ‘family’ pronounced with [t] at the end, when it is spelled with the letter д, and why is легко ‘easy’ spelled with the letter г? This chapter shows that this and many other problems you have struggled with in Modern Russian are the result of phonological changes in medieval times. Click on the links below to learn more! 12.2 Jers - licensed under CC-BY 4.0