Re: [tied] Sanskrit Accents

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>That being said, stress accent and pitch
> accent are not mutually exclusive: besides the possibility that PIE
> went through a stress-accent stage first, then through a pitch-

accent

> stage, and then back to stress accent in many of its branches, we

can

> also imagine a scenario where PIE had had *both* types of accent
> initially, and that some languages (e.g. Sanskrit) lost the stress,
> while others (e.g. Latin) lost the pitch.

... Lithuanian -- especially its Z^emaitic (Low Lithuanian) dialects -
- being an _exact_ typological parallel: Low Lithuanian combines a
(notoriously) strong expiratory stress (triggering shortening,
reduction or deletion of vowels in some cases) with (two phonological
and up to four phonetic) pitch accents.

Sergei