Once again about the assibilation of the vibrant r in Lower Sorbian against the background of similar facts in other West Slavic languages and dialects
The paper draws attention to the problem of the specific Lower Sorbian change of the vibrant /r/, also when it was not palatalized, after the consonants /p/, /t/, /k/ into the sibilant /š/ compared to the processes of assibilation not only of the palatalized /r/ in other West Slavic languages and dialects. This problem has already been discussed by many scholars, recently by L. E. Kalnyn who believes that such a change reflects especially close connection of consonants within words, which was typical of the period of the predominance of open syllables in the early history of the Slavic languages. The author of this article takes into consideration, among others, some similar facts in contemporary Polish and Czech immigrant dialects in Russia and concludes that this situation is partly maintained until now.