The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

Jasanoff, Jay H.

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“…The relevant assumptions are the following (cf. Leskien ; Stang : 116; Pronk : 235–8; Hill : 47–8; similarly Hock : 378–80; Jasanoff : 9; : 100–1): acute monophthongs are always shortened at the end of a word; and acute diphthongs are shortened at the end of polysyllabic words but remain diphthongs in monosyllabic words, changing their intonation from acute to circumflex. …”

Section: East Baltic Preverbs: the Case Of Highland Lithuanianmentioning

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“…The prosodic system of Latvian is known to have experienced a series of innovations alien to Lithuanian (cf. Endzelin : 17–32; Stang : 138–43; Petit : 64–71; Jasanoff : 62–4). Due to these changes, in Latvian the phonetic realization of the inherited intonations acute and circumflex differs from their Lithuanian realization.…”

Section: East Baltic Preverbs: the Case Of Highland Lithuanianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For a more detailed account of the facts cf. Endzelin (: 24–32) and, most recently, Young (), Olander (2009a: 118–21; 2009b: 88–9) and Jasanoff (: 62–4). The reason why the etymologically acute preverbs Latv pie‐ and nuo‐ did not acquire the broken tone – despite the fact that they preceded the stressed verb – might be precisely the prosodic boundary assumed in the present section in order to explain the shape of their Lithuanian counterparts.…”

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

Hill

Kölligan

Scheungraber

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The paper argues that seemingly aberrant phonological developments of local adverbs that have become prepositions and verbal and nominal prefixes in Baltic, Germanic and Armenian are to be explained by the assumption of a phase of ‘ditropic’ behaviour: ‘ditropic clitics’ select as their prosodic host any stressed word preceding their syntactic host without forming a semantic unit. This enclitic behaviour of forms that in the historically attested stages of Baltic, Germanic and Armenian are prepositions and verbal and nominal prefixes is argued to explain their seemingly aberrant phonological developments: the shortening of Lithuanian (preverbal) nu‐ and pri‐ beside (prenominal) núo‐ and príe‐ due to Leskien's law, the operation of Verner's law in Proto‐Germanic *ga‐ beside residual *ham‐ from Proto‐Indo‐European *kom‐ and of Verner's law or assimilatory voicing in Proto‐Gmc *du‐, and the behaviour of the Armenian prepositions / prefixes betraying word‐internal position e.g. in the reduction of the affricate /dz/ to /z/ in Arm z‐. After the local adverbs passed through a phase of ditropic behaviour in all three proto‐languages, the mismatch between prosody and morphosyntax was resolved by a ‘prosodic jump’, phonologically attaching the local adverbs to their semantic and syntactic hosts.

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Section: East Baltic Preverbs: the Case Of Highland Lithuanianmentioning

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

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Scheungraber

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“…This rule explains many cases of re lexes indicating long vowels in phonological and morphological environments where they would not otherwise be expected. The law is widely accepted (Jasanoff 2017), sometimes with additional restrictions on the conditioning environment (e.g. Shintani 1985;Rasmussen 1992;Matasović1995).…”

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“…There are some exceptions to the rule as originally formulated, which Winter himself acknowledges. Various proposals have been made to limit the rule to particular environments based on segments or prosody, though none of these revisions have been fully accepted, and all of these formulations still have some exceptions that they do not capture (Jasanoff 2017). Shintani (1985) proposed that the lengthening only took place in unstressed pretonic syllables; this formulation is largely accepted and partially revised by Rasmussen (1992), who also provides further examples supporting the law.…”

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Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law

Sanker¹

2018

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Vowels are longer before voiced than voiceless obstruents in many languages. Work on how this effect interacts with aspiration has been limited. This study presents data from Hindi and Telugu on vowel duration and other acoustic characteristics as in luenced by following consonants. Hindi vowels were signi icantly longer before voiced stops than voiceless stops, with no signi icant effect of aspiration. Telugu vowels were only slightly longer before voiced than voiceless stops; more crucially, they were shorter before aspirated stops than unaspirated stops. The Telugu results provide a parallel demonstrating the phonetic plausibility of the sound change proposed in Winter's Law, with vowel lengthening before voiced unaspirated stops but not before voiced aspirated stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic. While the exact processes causing the voicing and aspiration effects remain unclear, this data contributes to evaluating the phenomenon. Phonetic differences between in Hindi and Telugu may also suggest characteristics of how the Proto-Balto-Slavic stop contrasts were realized.

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The Continental Celtic Dialect Continuum

Eska

2024

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The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

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The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space

Effects of laryngeal features on vowel duration: implications for Winter’s Law

The Continental Celtic Dialect Continuum

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