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A small addition as for now.

> GrzJ:

>> We can observe also dialectal
>> limitations, namely all examples of palatalization after r.'
>> (syllabic soft r) are probably South Slavic,
>> and little or no examples of the 3rd
>> palatalization are known from northern Ruthenian dialects (esp.
>> Novgorod /
>> Ilmenian) where also 2nd palatalization did not occur.

> All local differences involve reflexes of velars in stem-final
> position, where analogical levelling explains results perfectly well.
> It just is not true that Novgorod differs from the remained of Slavic
> in this respect.

Complete lack of both 2nd and 3rd palatalization in the Novgorod dialect is
rather commonly known - thus Novgorod does differ from the rest of Slavic
ethnolects; see for example
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Novgorod_dialect. Wikipedia is not always of
little value (and if it even is, why don't you correct it, but everyone can
be a Wikipedist), especially when authors cite sources like here. Of course,
most literature on Novgorod is in Russian.

Grzegorz J.





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