TY - JOUR N2 - The article aims at the explanation of some distributional peculiarities of two high unrounded vowels [i] and [È] in Russian. More generally, it looks at some phonotactic constraints of Russian vowels which are directly related to a broader topic of palatalization and vowel reduction in this language. Although the discussion in this paper concerns only a tiny section of Russian phonology, which is the distribution of high unrounded vowels, it is necessary to introduce several facts from Russian phonology, such as palatalization, velarization, stress and vowel reduction. They, at first sight, may look pretty much irrelevant to the main topic of the paper but, as it will become evident, are closely related and actually indispensable to the understanding of vowel distribution including the two high unrounded vowels in Russian. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116424/PDF/2020-01-LINS-03-Kijak.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116424 PY - 2020 EP - 53 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2020.133263 KW - vowels KW - phonotactic constraints KW - palatalization KW - Russian A1 - Kijak, Artur PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 41 DA - 2020.07.24 T1 - On some distributional peculiarities of the high unrounded vowels in Russian SP - 39 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116424 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -