Abstract: This article explores the fall and vocalization of the jers, making five claims. First, it is shown how the jer shift can be analyzed in terms of a trochaic pattern, whereby a jer fell unless it headed a foot. Second, the foot-based approach is argued to be superior to the traditional counting mechanism postulated for the jer shift in that the foot-based approach avoids ad hoc stipulations and facilitates crosslinguistic comparison. Third, the present study relates the fall of the jers to a trochee-iamb shift in Russian prosody; a few generations after the jer shift was completed, an iambic pattern was introduced through the emergence of akan’e. Fourth, it is proposed that Contemporary Standard Russian may be a “switch language,” i.e., a language in which productive processes are sensitive to both trochees and iambs. Last but not least, the present study analyzes prosodic change from the point of view of cognitive linguistics (the Usage-Based Model) and shows that this framework offers a straightforward account of the jer shift.

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Jers 的脚注：俄罗斯 Trochee-Iamb 转变和认知语言学

摘要：本文探讨了球衣的坠落和发声，提出了五项主张。首先，它显示了如何根据 trochaic 模式来分析 jer 偏移，即 jer 除非以脚为首，否则会下降。其次，基于脚的方法被认为优于为 jer shift 假设的传统计数机制，因为基于脚的方法避免了临时规定并促进了跨语言比较。第三，本研究将 jers 的下降与俄罗斯韵律的 trochee-iamb 转变联系起来；在 jer 转换完成几代之后，通过 akan'e 的出现引入了抑扬格模式。第四，提出当代标准俄语可能是一种“转换语言”，即生产过程对锭剂和iambs都敏感的语言。最后但并非最不重要的，