Re: Slavic *-je/o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Then, how does the assumption of "dominant root acute" exclude the
> existence of pre-Dybo barytones with post-tonic acutes? All I was

saying

> was that _if_ the root contains a sufficiently old acute vowel it
> receives stress at the expense of an acuted derivational suffix

through

> a kind of "long retraction".

But you didn't mention this "the root" qualificator:

>My feeling is that it's a very old principle: acutes attract stress,
>and
>if there's a conflict between two acutes, the first one wins,

so that I thought you mean any acutes, first of which gains the stress.
This would exclude posttonic acutes in principle, thus my objection.

Sergei