The effect of aspiration on dj, tj reflexes in dialects of late common slavic (on the example of proto-ukrainian dialects )

The article deals with the palatalized aspirated component h (< dh, th) influence on the developments of the clusters dj, tj in Common Slavic. It also considers some causes that affect special clusters’ reflexes in the Slavic languages, for instance, Ukrainian. The data represent each of the proto-Slavic groups (East, West and South). Attention is also paid to the chronology and historical background of this phenomenon. The base of the theoretical research involves linguistic research papers by Antoine Meillet, Max Fasmer, Mychailo Zhovtobriuch, Vira Kolomiets, Vladimir Georgiev, Samuil Bernshtein, and George Y. Shevelov. The article states that an aspirated component of IE aspirated stops dh, th is not eliminated but transferred into a passive state in Common Slavic. However, development of Common Slavic phonemic system and certain prosodic alternations, e.g., acceleration of articulation, which determined divergence into independent Slavic languages, causes the second rise of the inherited (IE) aspirated component of Common Slavic d (<dh) and t (<th) under the influence of the following palatalized labiodental consonant j; the middle articulation rises not only because of regressive assimilation of d, t caused by palatal sibilants but also is a result of progressive assimilation of h’ with a transferred stage of čʹ and ǯʹ. At the same time, the prosodic system evolution causes various dj, tj reflexes in the modern Slavic languages. In the article, changes dj > ǯ are spread on all Slavic languages, where dʹhʹj becomes one of the oldest Slavic shifts, while forms with ž, dʹ is a result of late changes, especially those conditioned by further modifications of their prosodic system after the disintegration of the Common Slavic language.У статті висвітлено вплив палаталізованого придихового компонента h (< dh, th) на долю звукосполук dj, tj у праслов’янській мові, з’ясовано причини, які вплинули на особливу рефлексацію цих звукосполук у кожній з груп слов’янських мов, а також в українській мові. Зроблено спробу встановити часові межі згаданого явища