Vowel breaking in Russian

[Lana Soglasnova]

Yes, some relatively recent studies:

Shcherbakova's 2006 Kandidat dissertation "Гортанный смычный согласный в русском языке":
http://www.dissercat.com/content/gortannyi-smychnyi-soglasnyi-v-russkom-yazyke
also discusses prosodic factors (intonation) in glottal stop occurrence

her article in Voprosy Iazykoznaniia, has an English Abstract: 
Shcherbakova, L A. Voprosy yazykoznaniya54.2 (Mar 2006): 111-118.
Phonetics and Phonology of Juncture in Morphemes and Words [On the Delimitative Function of the Laryngeal Juncture in Russian]
Abstract: E. D. Polivanov's (1928) description of his own Russian idiolect from the Baltic region is cited (1) to attest the existence of a glottal stop that clearly marks the word boundary in phrases of the type k ottsu 'to father' & conditions devoicing of the preposition v in phrases of the type v ad 'to hell' & (2) to argue that Polivanov's data is significant for Russian as a whole, although the use of glottal stops has been assigned to an artificial style of pronunciation by other Russian linguists. The glottal stop or laryngeal juncture is analyzed as a physical substrate of boundary signals between prepositions ending in a consonant & following words beginning with a vowel; it emerges in a full style of pronunciation & is weakened in conversational style, which retains as a position of strong delimitation only the nonpalatalized realization of velar consonants before front vowels in phrases of the type k etomu 'toward this'.

Dobrodomov and Izmest'eva's 2009 article on the history of glottal stop devt in Russian also has an essential bibliography, in Russian, both on its synchrony and diachrony:
http://www.ssc.smr.ru/media/journals/izvestia/2009/2009_4_1001_1006.pdf

best,
Lana
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Lana Soglasnova
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