Z problemów fonetyki polskiej (część I)

In the paper the author presents various opinion on the phonetic assessment and the phonological status of the palatal counterparts of the velar sounds in Polish as well as the historical development and the dialectal diversity of the given consonants. Generally speaking, the sounds in question are treated as the separate phones /k’/, /g’/ or the positional allophones of /k/, /g/, /x/ appearing before /i/, /j/.