VOCALISM OF THE FIRST PRESTRESSED SYLLABLE AFTER PALATALIZED CONSONANTS IN 17TH CENTURY KOSTROMA DIALECTS

Abstract

The article considers a new data of the 17th century Kostroma business style documents. Based on it, we come to a conclusion about a history of the first prestressed syllable vocalism after palatalized consonants in North Russian Kostroma dialects, as well as discover its relationship with the stressed syllable phenomena. Th e results obtained are then compared with the modern dialects data in the territory considered. It turns out that in Kostroma dialects the tendency to non-high vowel neutralization in the sound [e] in the fi rst prestressed syllable between palatalized consonants started to take shape as early as the 17th century, which is evidenced by letter substitutions in this position. The manuscript data confirms the previous conclusions about the formation of the North Russian dialectal landscape and clarifi es the dating of the ‘ekanye’ emergence in a position before palatalized consonants. Parallelism of the phenomena in the first prestressed syllable aft er palatalized consonants with the phenomena present in the stressed syllable was still present in 17th century Kostroma dialects, but nowadays it is lost in Kostroma dialects with ‘ekanye’ in the first prestressed syllable in a position before palatalized or velarized consonants.