@inbook{0046385071114bf7b6d1c1c1b65a2c01,
title = "The development of the Hidegs{\'e}g and Fert{\"o}homok vowel system",
abstract = "The variety of Croatian spoken in Hidegseg \& Fertohomok, villages in northwest Hungary, is claimed to be Kajkavian. Their vowel systems differ somewhat; both have six stressed vowels distinguished by length, but Fertohomok has five unstressed vowels \& Hidegseg four. The development of these two systems is traced from the Proto-Kajkavian system reconstructed by W. R. Vermeer (1983). It is asserted that the fronting of *u/*u to u/u is not just a local development but is shared with common Kajkavian \& some Cakavian \& Stokavian dialects. Later these were defronted, causing u to be lowered to o. All the changes can be explained as straightforward developments from Proto-Kajkavian rather than as contaminations of Cakavian or Stokavian origin.",
keywords = "Croatian dialectology, Kajkavian, historical Slavic linguistics",
author = "H.P. Houtzagers",
year = "1996",
language = "Dutch",
series = " Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics",
publisher = "Rodopi",
pages = "111 -- 142",
editor = "J Schaeken and Barentsen, \{A A\} and Groen, \{B M\} and R Sprenger",
booktitle = "Studies in South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics",
}