--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
> All I can say is that it was probably a "central" innovation, since
southern Malopolska and the Polish-Kashubian transitional dialects
retained the initial stress until rather late. In fact, the
traditional dialects of Malopolska (southern Poland) from the Tatra
Mountains to just south of Kraków still have it (sociolinguistically,
it's a salient part of the stereotyped highlander accent). It can't
be plausibly explained as Slovak influence, since most of the
neighbouring Slovak dialects (unlike standard Slovak) have penult
stress.
>
> In northwestern Moravia and parts of Silesia (both on the Czech
side and in Poland) you will find areas of both initial and and
penult stress, here most likely due to the diffusion of mainstream
prosodic patterns between Polish and Czech.
>
> Piotr
>
>
In short, that would rule out any idea of a dialect that could trace
penultimate stress back to a Celtic substrate, since that would be
found around Kraków?
Torsten