Re: [tied] Re: Slavic accentology

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:25:18 +0000, pielewe
<wrvermeer@...> wrote:

>[On the accentuation of *volja-type nouns]
>
>[In addition the mechanism by which the _I_ is held to disappear
>precisely in those instances in which it is purported to have been
>stressed is too unnatural not to raise suspicion.]

I don't think so. It would be unnatural in a language where
unstressed vowels have a tendency to weaken, but Common
Slavic was not such a language. But even when unstressed
vowels are not weakened, a stressed vowel has a greater
potential for absorbing neighbouring (unstrssed) vowels,
which is what Stang claims happened here ('Ìa > 'ã).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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