Some very specific prosodic innovations affected the Balto-Slavic linguistic community, probably at a time when it already showed internal dialectal differences. Whether those innovations were related to archaic remnants stemming from the parent Proto-Indo-European language, and whether that disintegrating community included different dialects, remains an object of active debate. “Archaic” Balto-Slavic? The main question about … Continue reading Balto-Slavic accentual mobility: an innovation in contact with Balto-Finnic