1. VOCALIC FEATURES AND STRESS IN THE BEDNJA DIALECT1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Stress, quantity, tone; 1.2 o/ao/au, u/ou, y/ey, i/ei; 1.3 The grapheme e; 1.4 o and u in nasal contexts; 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BEDNJA VOWEL SYSTEM; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 A few mergers; 2.2 *e, *ę and *o; 2.3 *uò; 2.4 The development of the vowel system; 2.5 Morpheme-initial *u-, *vb- and *vb-; 2.6 The treatment of word-final *-aj; 3. THE PROGRESSIVE STRESS SHIFT; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 sêino; 3.2 eblâok, ekyelu; 3.3 Levellings; 3.4 nâobrol; 3.5 vugljen; 3.6 negôu, mâdo, kële; 3.7 dnâvo; 4. THE NEOCIRCUMFLEX |