Re: [tied] Re: Lith. Acc.pl.

On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:03:41 -0000, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>How do you deduce that the nominative singular (-ìs, -ùs) is
>acute? My understanding is that acute and circumflex are only
>distinguished in stressed long vowels and diphthongs,

Certainly not only in _stressed_ position, otherwise de Saussure's law (which
states that an acute syllable attracts the stress from a preceding circumflex or
short syllable) would be an absurdity.


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