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Article: Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2001
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Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory. By CHRISTINA Y. BETHIN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi + 349 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
In this book Christina Bethin re-examines some longstanding problems in Slavonic accentuation and syllable structure from a new theoretical perspective. She gives an account of the Slavonic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates certain language changes at this period to issues in phonological theory, suggesting alternative interpretations and solutions to several persistent puzzles of Slavonic historical phonology. This book is not, however, a historical or ...