Przejście grup zv-, ź- w ʒ-, - w języku polskim .......... 205
Synopsis
The article aims to analyse the geography and history of the shift of consonant clusters zv-, ź- into ʒv-, -. This change occurred in the centre of the Polish dialect area and in Mazovia. The range of the new realization of ʒv- is slightly wider than that of -. In terms of chronology, the first instances of these new forms appear in sources around the mid-15th century, and the 16th century saw a rapid expansion of the pronunciation ʒv-, -. By the end of the 16th century, this pronunciation was already dominant in literary Polish.