Russian philology
The morphology features a palatalized
final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs (this is unpalatalized in the Standard and Northern
dialects). Some of these features such as akanye and yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited //, a
semivowel /wu/ and palatalized final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in
modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian), indicating a linguistic
continuum.
The city of Veliky Novgorod has historically displayed a feature called chokanye or tsokanye
( or ), in which /t/ and /ts/ were switched or merged. So, ('heron') has
been recorded as . Also, the second palatalization of velars did not occur there, so the
so-called ² (from the Proto-Slavic diphthong *ai) did not cause /k, , x/ to shift to /ts, dz, s/;
therefore, where Standard Russian has ('chain'), the form [kep] is attested in
earlier texts.
Among the first to study Russian dialects was Lomonosov in the 18th century. In the 19th,
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