@ARTICLE{Jocz2025:i8522,
	author="{Jocz, Lechosław}",
	title="{The Development of *#wo, *#wu in Lower Sorbian: Phonetics and Phonology}",
	year="2025",
	type="artykuł naukowy",
	language="en",
	journal="{Scando-Slavica}",
	issn="0080-6765",
	volume="71",
	number="1",
	pages="3--17",
	doi="10.1080/00806765.2025.2478549",
	url="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00806765.2025.2478549?scroll=top&needAccess=true",
	keywords="Lower Sorbian; minority languages; glides; glottalisation; glottal stop",
	abstract="{In Lower Sorbian, morpheme-initial /w/ in front of <o, u> was affected by a weakening to [h] and, eventually, to zero. Consequently, an optional pronunciation with the glottal stop in place of the original [w] emerged. The analysed data, representing the speech of the last Lower Sorbian native speaker generation, shows a coexistence of true zero with glottal stop, glottalisation, [h], and [w] as reflexes of the original [w]. This variation is largely free but partially conditioned by the phonological and morphological context, with a different variant distribution depending on the right-hand context, as well as a distinct treatment of word-internal and word-initial structures. However, the weakening/elimination of /w/ is a purely phonetic phenomenon and the underlying /w/ remains consistently preserved.}",
}