pereVEdeno?

[H.P. Houtzagers]

Charles Mills wrote:
> I am not nearly as surprised by the stress shift as I am by the vowel
> quality that results.  For reasons I am sure you will appreciate, I
> would have maybe expected pereVYOdeno, uVYOzena, vNYOseny, etc.
> instead.
>
> C. Mills
> Pacific Grove, California
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I'm not sure that everybody would expect that. First the e-ë alternation 
is due to a change of e > ë  that took place in Russian centuries ago 
but it does not have to be a productive alternation in contemporary 
Russian. Second, even in that very remote past the law e > ë did not 
work before a soft consonant.

Peter Houtzagers

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