Normalization problems concerning jer (research based on the corpus for the Church Slavonic dictionary of croatian redaction)

Normalization problems concerning jer (research based on the corpus for the Church Slavonic dictionary of croatian redaction) This paper deals with various problems of lexical normalization concerning jer which have occured in the course of compiling the dictionary. The following problems are considered: the marking of jer at word ends, the weak and strong positions, jer in the context of syllable forming r and l, the alternation of i and jer in front of a wovel (in the written form) and j + vowel (in the pronounced form), the normalization of adjectives ending in a consonant + ski...Each of these problems is illustrated by examples from the dictionary which show all the variantes found in the manuscripts of Croatian redaction. For some of these problems definite solutions are proposed (definite normalizations) while others remain unsolved and a few alternative solutions are suggested