The Phonological Representation of Jer Vowels in Croatian

The alternation of vowels with zero in Croatian and the other Slavic lan­ guages is a complex phenomenon that has lang attracted the attention of linguists. This article examines previous phonological analyses that have been developed to account for these alternations in the contemporary Slavic linguistic systems and proposes an alternative approach to this problem within the theoretical framework of autosegmental phonology. The analysis proposed here accounts for a wider range of Croatian data than these earlier analyses, while at the same time it avoids some of the shortcomings of previous approaches.