An Outline of the Phonetic Typology of the Slavic Languages

Contents

Vocalic vs. consonantal languages (Quantitative relations within the phonemic inventories and in the texts *Consonantal and vocalic clusters *Geminates *The treatment of nasal vowels)

Languages with an accommodative vs. languages with a nonaccommodative pronunciation (Palatalization *Sandhi phenomena)

Segmental word patterns (One-peak syllable pattern vs. two-peak syllable pattern *Peripheral patterns *Hierachy of sonants; the treatment of *w)

Prosody (Word prosody and vocalic reductions *Phrase prosody)

The Slavic contribution to European phonetic Sprachbunde

Irena Sawicka