The Phoneme /V/ in Slavic Verbal Suffixes

More on the Laryngeals With Labial and Palatal Appendices

“…Perhaps the soundest proof of this is that a new theory hasbeen put forward, Schmalstieg's (1973), which disregards these lengthenings and gives a purely phonetic solution to the facts studied here. The foregoing does not mean any more than that the theory of -u or -i lengthenings and that of its phonetic or analogical loss uponoccasion,is still äs unfeasible äs ever.…”